Tag: lessons learned

The American Club reports an incident where voyage planning problems resulted to grounding and loss of ship.

National Transportation Safety Board issued its investigation of the Nov. 14, 2020, accident involving the towing vessel Island Lookout and the Centerville Turnpike Bridge near Chesapeake, Virginia.

NTSB released an investigation of the accident in which the tanker Atina struck the oil and gas production platform SP-57B near Pilottown.

In 2020, there was an approximate average of one fire every two weeks onboard ships, while fire/explosion remained the third most common cause of ship total losses (11%) over the past decade.

NTSB completed its investigation of accident involving barges towed by the Trent Joseph and George C and the Barataria Bridge.

The American Club reports an incident of poor anchor watchkeeping, that led to two vessels collision, and provides lessons learned.

Rock on the seabed may have caused previously unknown holes in the hull of the ferry Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 with the loss of 852 lives.

A crewmember fell through the opening left by the lifted section of grating down to the boat deck, approximately 3.2m.

UK P&I Club released a video describing the dangers of refrigeration machinery following an enclosed space casualty.

American club issued its latest version of “Good Catch”, providing lessons learned from an accident where a crewmember broke his leg.