Tag: lifeboats

Lloyd’s Register along with InterManager, used the former's SafetyScanner machine learning technology to identify new insights regarding lifeboat accidents, in order to help improve lifeboat safety at sea.

Lifeboats are designed to save lives, but over the years there have been many serious casualties, as Gard Club explained.

Transport Malta issued an investigation report on the fire on a lifeboat while carrying out tests onboard the Maltese-flagged tanker Med Tuncer in May 2020. The investigation identified a very high short circuit current within the batteries as a probable cause of the incident. 

Claiming the title of the most high-level shipwreck in history, Titanic is far more than a famous tragic story as it redefined the concept of maritime safety and led to the adoption of SOLAS Convention.

Japan’s Transportation Safety Board (JTSB) issued an investigation report on the fatality of a crew member onboard the cargo ship ORANGE PHOENIX, after falling from a lifeboat to the deck during an abandon ship drill in November 2019.

IMCA in its monthly Safety Flahes, focused on a case where during a load test of a lifeboat the forward fall wire failed, causing the lifeboat to flip upside down.

Lifeboats save lives. Titanic had a limited number of lifeboats onboard because its construction was considered a technological miracle of safety and luxury. And this is why 1,500 out of the 2,200 people onboard perished in what is considered as the world’s most famous maritime disaster.

Mr Iasonas Lalizas, Marketing Communication Manager, Lalizas Hellas highlights that periodical trainings of the crew, onboard visual product inspections and maintenance are key practices for the proper operation of lifesaving equipment on board and refers to safety challenges that lifesaving equipment manufacturers face.

NTSB issued an investigation report on the overturn of lifeboat Kristin Faye while working alongside a platform in the Gulf of Mexico, in September 2019. The report identified the company’s inadequate preload procedure as key cause of the incident. 

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) shared recommendations after a fatal incident during a drill on a floating offshore facility, when a lifeboat and personnel fell about 75 feet (23 meters) to the water.