Tag: fire onboard

The US Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi watchstanders received a report about a Magellan owned platform on fire and launched a Coast Guard Station Port Aransas 45-foot Response Boast-Medium boat crew to the area. After the response boat arrived on scene, the crew established a 200-yard safety zone.

After the vessel "Maersk Honam" sustained a serious fire in one of its cargo holds. 23 crew members were evacuated, but Maersk Line informed that one of the evacuated crewmembers lost his life, as he sustained serious injuries. As the company stated, the health of one of the crewmembers deteriorated on Wednesday, March 7 afternoon, resulting in losing his life. 

In its latest Monthly Safety Scenario, the Swedish Club presents an incident of engine room fire caused by the emergency quick acting valves not being properly closed. Many fires are caused by hot spots not being covered by the required insulation which might have been removed during maintenance.

On Tuesday afternoon, the vessel "Maersk Honam" sustained a serious fire in one of its cargo holds. 23 crew members have been successfully evacuated, but search and rescue operations are ongoing for four crew members who are missing.

Fire broke out in the cargo hold of the general cargo ship "Michael Putra" in the afternoon of February 28 in the Java sea, about 15 nm south of Bangka Belitung Islands, Indonesia. The Indonesian-flagged ship was carrying 20 people onboard, crew and passengers, and was heading to Bintan Islands, from Tanjung Pinan province.

The UK MAIB issued an investigation report on the catastrophic engine failure and subsequent fire on the 15-metre windfarm crew transfer vessel 'Windcat 8', noting that the fixed firefighting system was operated, but it was ineffective because not all the engine space vents had been closed.

Motivated by the catastrophic fire which occurred on board the Crew Transfer Vessel Umoe Ventus on December 23rd, 2015, the Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology, issued the project “New Fire Strategies in the Wake of Umoe Ventus” to increase the level of safety on board vessels.

DMA focuses on problems that may arise when using a CO2-system in an emergency because the operation of the system cannot be trained in practice in connection with periodic fire drills.

US Coast Guard and senior investigators with the Transportation and Safety Board of Canada boarded the 876-foot container ship 'MOL Prestige' on 12 February, at Pier 18 in the Port of Seattle, to begin preliminary investigations into the cause of the engine room fire that the vessel suffered earlier this month. 

The USCG, port partners and local authorities are investigating the grounding of the 88-foot commercial fishing vessel 'Chui Zai Fa No. 1' about 300-yards off Leone Bay, on Monday. The Taiwanese-flagged vessel reportedly caught fire on 4 November 2017 and the master with one crew remain missing.