Tag: fatality onboard

On 19 June a fatal accident occurred onboard the inland motor freighter Ronny-O, at Waalhaven in the Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

NGO Shipbreaking Platform has raised alarm over that fact that just weeks before the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships is set to take effect on 26 June, a worker died at Alang, the world’s largest shipbreaking yard.

A second person has died from injuries sustained in a recent fire at the Chevron-operated Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco (BBLT) oil platform offshore Angola, raising the total number of fatalities to three.

An explosion onboard the waste disposal vessel Hunts Point on 24 May claimed the life of one person and injured two others.

CHIRP Maritime draws lessons learned from an incident where poor communication, incomplete securing of deck areas, and a failure to fully implement heavy weather procedures led to deaths of two seafarers. 

A Mexican Navy training ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on 17 May leaving two people dead and 19 others injured.

As part of its Today in History series, Mr. Louis' YouTube channel has presented a look back at one of the most tragic and lesser-known events in American history: the explosion of the steamboat Sultana on April 27, 1865.

Two crewmembers lost their lives after a Ro-Pax ferry capsized and sank in East Kalimantan province on 5 May resulting in two fatalities.

The Marine Safety Forum draws lessons learned an incident where an individual was found trapped between a sliding hydraulic watertight door and its frame.

Two crew members, one Filipino and one Chinese, were confirmed dead after a sand carrier capsized off the coast of Rizal, Occidental Mindoro.