Tag: marine casualties

UK MAIB has issued an investigation report on the incident of the girting and capsize of tug Biter with the loss of two lives while assisting passenger vessel Hebridean Princess in February 2023. 

On October 31, a fire broke out in the engine room of the Turkish cargo vessel FG Sevil in the Marmara Sea, while it was en route from Yalova, Turkey, to Bulgaria.

On October 18, 2024, cargo ship Grigory Lovtsov capsized in the Sea of Okhotsk near Sakhalin Island, Russia, possibly resulting casualties.

Almost seven months after the MV Dali crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, FBI has a ship owned by the same company, one lawsuit follows the other, with experts saying that this ordeal will cost a pretty penny. 

On 7 September, around noon, an explosion occurred at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda, Chattogram, leading to a fire that killed two workers. On 7 September, around noon, an explosion occurred at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda, Chattogram, leading to a fire that killed two workers.

On September 2, 2024, an Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) crashed into the Arabian Sea about 45 km from Porbandar while conducting a medical evacuation. 

Two Russian crew members aboard the dry cargo ship Navis 2 have died in an enclosed space accident off the coast of Turkey

Britannia P&I Club released a case study focusing on an incident onboard a bulk carrier nearing the completion of loading corn cargo, which caused two fumigation contractors to asphyxiate and the death of one contractor. 

A fire aboard the Indonesian tanker Elisabet Satu off the coast of Bali resulted in the deaths of five crew members and left 15 others injured.

Whether in a port or dock or on board a vessel, in several circumstances work at height is required, meaning that the necessary precautions must be taken since many of these activities could lead to a fall from height.