Tag: lifeboats

Lifeboats and rescue boats play a crucial role in emergency situations, and their proper maintenance and inspection are essential for saving lives.

The American P&I Club has issued a guidance that highlights the importance of indepth training, robust familiarity with the specific lifeboat onboard, and rigorous maintenance routines to ensure the safety and reliability of lifeboats.

The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) has issued a Marine Notice to address the issue of lifeboat safety which has been the focus of considerable efforts over several years at the International Maritime Organization.

A recent Safety Flash by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) focuses on an incident in which a Chief Officer slipped and fell from a pilot ladder onto a lifeboat, suffering minor bruising.

According to Loyd’s Register, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has adopted amendments to the SOLAS Convention, Resolution MSC.81(70) and the International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code, which come into force on 1 January 2024.

The 107th session of the IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC 107), 31 May to 9 June 2023, adopted new requirements in order to improve safety, including new mandatory requirements for lifting appliances and anchor handling winches, and new mandatory requirements for ventilation of totally enclosed lifeboats.

Container Ship Safety Forum e.V. (CSSF) released a statement today to call for a reinvention of the lifeboat onboard cargo vessels so safety can be improved.

The International Marine Organisation (IMO) Sub-Committee on Ship Systems and Equipment (SSE 9), that took place from 27th February to 3rd of March, 2023 adopted amendments addressing the ventilation of survival craft for totally enclosed lifeboats. 

As the Nautical Institute reports, a lifeboat heeled heavily to port and water began streaming in over the edge of the open side hatch.

TSB Canada published its report on the 1 December 2020 incident, where while the crew on the bulk carrier Blue Bosporus were carrying out a free‑fall lifeboat drill at Anchorage 12 in English Bay, British Columbia, the wire rope slings holding the lifeboat failed and it fell approximately 14m to the water.