Tag: grounding

The ATSB investigation found that bridge resource management was not effectively implemented on board Maersk Garonne. As a result, the ship’s bridge team was not fully engaged in the pilotage and did not effectively monitor the ship’s passage.

Another case in the latest UK MAIB Safety Digest provides lessons learned concerning an incident in which a platform supply vessel grounded when it left the buoyed channel of an unfamiliar port.

Hong Kong Marine Department has issued information note referring to a Hong Kong registered ship which went aground in anchorage of Antofagasta, Chile due to relying solely on GPS positioning information.

The Swedish P&I Club has issued its Monthly Safety Scenario for August 2016 regarding a grounding incident with pilot onboard at Suez Canal, in order to assist owners in their efforts of complying with the loss prevention initiative.

UK MAIB has issued a report on the Bahamas registered passenger vessel Hamburg that grounded on charted rocks near the New Rocks buoy in the Sound of Mull, Scotland, on 11 May 2015.

The US Coast Guard continues to monitor and respond to the motor vessel Roger Blough, after the vessel ran aground on Gros Cap Reef in Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior.Plans continue to progress to safely free the Blough from Gros Cap Reef in conjunction with Canadian partners and company representatives.

GAC Egypt reported that an oil tanker ran aground at 159 km of the Suez Canal at about 0850 hours local time on May 11, 2016, shortly after it entered the canal

A nuclear fuel carrier ran aground last week off Sweden.The M/S Sigrid had no dangerous cargo aboard and was on its way into the harbor outside the Barseback nuclear plant whose reactors were closed in 1999 and 2005.

The motor vessel Sparna, a 623-foot Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier briefly ran aground in the Columbia River, on March 21, 2016. The Sparna suffered multiple fractures along its hull after briefly running aground, however, no pollution was reported coming from the damaged areas. A Unified Command consisting of the Coast Guard, operators of the motor vessel Sparna, Columbia River Pilots and the National Response Corporation Environmental Services oversaw the safe transit of the damaged motor vessel Sparna up the Columbia River to the North Kalama, Washington pier.

The motor vessel Sparna, a 623-foot Panamanian-flagged bulk carrier briefly ran aground in the Columbia River, but is still safely afloat near Cathlamet, Wash., on March 21, 2016. USCG informs that the vessel is damaged below the waterline, but is maintaining position awaiting repairs.