Tag: fatality onboard

Divers discovered the body of one crewmember within the wreck of the sunken freighter Seiryu, which sank in the Seto Inland Sea last week after colliding with another vessel.

USCG, along with NTSB and other agencies, are investigating several deaths and injuries of that took place onboard passenger vessels recently traveling in Antarctic waters.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) Marine Safety Control Centre informed that on 31 January 2023, a prime mover with the driver in the vehicle fell into the sea at Keppel Terminal Berth. 

The Nautical Institute provides lessons learned from an incident involving a corroded extinguisher, whose malfunction proved fatal.

The Dutch Safety Board published a Safety Alert, after an accident during which a sea sailor died after a flare exploded immediately.

On January 30, a fire broke out onboard a cargo vessel close to the Lamma Power Station, Hong Kong. In the incident, one mainland crew member lost his life.

On January 25, a man died after falling onboard a containership at the Port of Los Angeles, as the LA Fire Department informed. 

The Hong Kong-flagged general cargo ship "Jin Tian" sank between South Korea and Japan on January 25, and there are fears that up to 8 crew might have died in the incident.

A new investigation into the sinking of ferry Estonia that claimed 852 lives in 1994 revealed flaws in its bow visor construction missed during its certification.

At least one person died and four were injured, while seven are missing, due to a strong explosion in an oil tanker in the province of Samut Songkhram, in western Thailand, on January 17.