Tag: fire onboard

US Coast Guard has issued Marine Safety Alert 03-14 to remind to vessel owners/ operators and also fire safety equipment servicing companies to use caution when replacing components on hand portable fire extinguishers.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued marine Accident Brief on engine room fire on board towing vessel Marguerite L. Terral happened on June 9, 2012.

According to Braemar SA "Lessons are still not being learned when it comes to preventing engine room fires." This is the message from Graeme Temple, Regional Director for Braemar SA's Far East operations, following a review of incidents taking place in 2013."Last year we attended a significant number of engine-room fires - the industry is still experiencing far too many unnecessary casualties where flammable liquids in engine rooms are finding their way onto hot spots,"he says."On many of the vessels I visit, these hot spots are only too easy to find, with thermal imaging photographs readily identifying these defects".Yet despite all the attention Class aims at fire prevention and protection design, potential problems must be detected earlier to ensure a fast and efficient first response. A crew has only limited resources available and time to prevent any problem escalating.At any one time in a modern engine room there can be thousands of litres of flammable liquids circulating inside the pipe systems. Aside from the obvious risk to life, a ship fire is inevitably a very expensive, time consuming, property repair. Heat damage, firefighting effort damage, acid residues from burnt plastics, soot cleaning and painting all add up, leaving a cost ...

The UK MAIB has issued safety bulletin on the fire and subsequent foundering of workboat ECC TOPAZ on Janaury 2014.

A crewman has been airlifted to hospital yesterday morning after a fire on board a wind farm support vessel 4 nautical miles off Great Yarmouth.

The UK MAIB issued this year Safety Digest including lessons learnt from maritime accidents. One incident draws the attention on pilot boat fire where disaster prevented by swift actions.

Three crewmen have been rescued off Lowestoft this afternoon after their vessel caught fire in the North Sea.

In preparation for hot work by shore workers the crew placed three fire hoses, two dry-powder fire extinguishers and a number of fire blankets in the hold.

Investigations are underway to work out what caused a collision between a cargo ship and a chemical-laden tanker off Korea's southeast coast in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The London P&I Club has issued alert regarding distresed sugar cargoes from Santos. The Club had previoulsy reported a fire broke out at the Copersucar Sugar Terminal in Santos a few months ago