Tag: life onboard

TAIC issued an investigation report on the sinking of the fishing vessel 'Francie' in inclement weather off Kaipara Harbour in November 2016, which killed eight people. TAIC highlighted that the eight passengers would have better chances of survival, had they wearing life-jackets in accordance with maritime safety rules. 

There are several social networking sites specific to the interests of maritime personnel. However, seafarers should be mindful on how to use them. Below is a quick guide on how to have a responsible social media usage as a seafarer.

Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight onboard is important for crew’s overall health and can help them prevent and control many diseases and conditions. The lifestyle changes onboard, emotional factors, genetics and some hormone problems may cause an abnormal increase in the size and the amount of fat cells in the body resulting in overweight and obesity. 

Resulting from a fatal combination of heavy weather and human error and causing over 800 fatalities, the accident is considered as a significant part of Philippines heavy legacy of maritime disasters.

In a new short safety animated video, IMO provides simple but key messages to ferry passengers: Overcrowding is dangerous, listen to crew, follow instructions. The video was commissioned following a series of IMO-sponsored regional discussion forums on ferry safety held in the Asia and Pacific region.

Over the last decade communication technology in commercial shipping has been steadily improving with the widespread adoption of VSAT solutions and HTS. Increasing reliability, bandwidth and reducing costs have brought vessels much closer to being floating branch offices than ever before,  argues Mr. Jamie Jones , Head of Service, GTMaritime.

Potable water on ships must be obtained only from those water sources and water supplies that provide potable water and are approved by the health administration or health authority.

Captain VS Parani, author of the Golden Stripes- Leadership on the High Seas, shares lessons learned from two different groundings which occured due to similar failures, highlighting once again the importance of safety culture onboard.

There is no single thing that can cause chest pain and other disorders of the heart, but there are several risk factors that contribute to it. For a better heart heald, people working at sea and all people as well, coming from all ages, are advised being physically active, managing conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and depression, managing their weight and avoiding social isolation.

professionalism has to do with how you conduct yourself during your business affairs; different tasks to different people. Talking about shipping industry, seafaring with its STCW rules could meet all the requirements of a profession. However, professionalism has many attributes.