Tag: man overboard

The Nautical Institute has drawn lessons from an incident involving a container ship, where a crew member tragically fell overboard during an unlashing task, highlighting issues with safety procedures, inadequate training, and fatigue.

The Nautical Institute reports an incident where lax safety culture and bad design resulted in man overboard (MOB) fatality, in order to draw lessons learned. 

AMSA provides lessons learned from an incident during which a crew's foot was trapped in a cray's pot’s rope, and was dragged over the side.

CHIRP provides lessons learned from an incident, where a tender collided with another moored vessel, with a training officer falling overboard, into the water.

As UK MAIB reports in its most recent Safety Digest, a crewman fell overboard a fishing vessel, while the boat continued its passage with the sleeping skipper unaware of the situation.

AMSA informed that the body of a woman who fell overboard the cruise ship Pacific Explorer in the Great Australian Bight has been recovered, ending an overnight search. 

A total of 19 personnel fell overboard, when the small boat that they were in, became unbalanced and tipped as it was lifted to the hospital ship USNS Comfort, on December 12.

A US Coast Guard helicopter rescued a man who had fallen overboard from a Carnival cruise ship off the coast of New Orleans on November 24.

Taiwan has been searching for a chief officer who was reported overboard from a Vietnamese bulk carrier. The chief officer was one of four Vietnamese crew members who fell from the supramax VIMC Sunrise off Mailiao on October 17.

The Norwegian Safety Investigation Authority (NSIA) published its report on the very serious accident regarding a fall overboard from the cargo ship Titran, that took place east of Stigen in Lurøy municipality, on 6 March 2022.