Tag: NTSB

It’s been 40 years since the large bulk carrier SS Marine Electric tragically sank on February 12, 1983, off the Virginia coast, remembers Mr. James Scheffer, Strategic Advisor, NTSB Office of Marine Safety. 

USCG, along with NTSB and other agencies, are investigating several deaths and injuries of that took place onboard passenger vessels recently traveling in Antarctic waters.

NTSB published its report on the contact between the offshore supply vessel Elliot Cheramie with the oil and gas production platform EI-259A, on June 25, 2021. Four minor injuries were reported.

NTSB published its accident report on the collision between the private Yacht Utopia IV and the tanker Tropic Breeze, on December 23, 2021, Northeast Providence Channel, 20 miles northwest of Nassau, Bahamas.

NTSB published the accident report of the towing vessel Marquette Warrior, which o​n November 21, 2021, lost steering after the online electrical generator failed.

NTSB published its accident report on a November 25, 2021 accident, when the liquefied petroleum gas carrier Gas Ares collided with the outermost of two harbor tugs moored alongside the no. 1 loading dock at the Motiva Port Neches Terminal.

NTSB published the accident report of the passenger ferry "Commodore" on the East River near Bushwick Inlet off Brooklyn, New York, when the vessel lost primary steering and speed control to both of its port hull water jets and then grounded.

NTSB published the executive summary of the report regarding Seacor Power, which capsized off the coast of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. According to the report, severe winds led to the incident.

NTSB published its investigation report on the towing vessel Capt. Kirby Dupuis, which experienced a fire on the port main diesel engine on November 9, 2021.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its Safer Seas Digest 2021, highlighting the most important lessons learned from 31 maritime tragedies that took place in 2021.