Tag: NTSB

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.

NTSB published its investigation report into the collision of the bulk carrier Jalma Topic, with a barge on the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans, Louisiana.

The NTSB released the results of its investigation into the collision of a moving train with the towboat Baxter Southern on the Upper Mississippi in late 2021.

A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed the criminal indictment against the captain of the dive boat Conception, who was charged with manslaughter in the deaths of 34 people when the vessel caught fire and sank off the California coast three years ago.

Three years after the fire aboard the Conception dive boat, more progress is needed on the safety recommendations the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued as a result of the investigation.

NTSB published a accident report regarding a fire that started in the engine room on the Roger Blough during the dry bulk carrier’s winter layup at the Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding facility on Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.

NTSB published its investigation report on the bulk carrier Ocean Princess, which, with a crew of 24, struck the uncrewed/out-of-service oil and gas production platform SP-83A while operating in the Gulf of Mexico, 24 miles south of Pilottown, Louisiana.

NTSB issued the investigation report of the towing vessel Mary Lynn in which a fire broke out last May resulting to damages estimated at over $700,000, but hopefully, no injuries or pollution reported.

NTSB published its report on the engine room fire aboard the containership President Eisenhower, that took place on April 28, 2021, off California.

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published a report regarding a captain's decision to leave the wheelhouse unattended as the vessel transited the St. Marys Entrance on autopilot, resulting in the vessel's  grounding and sinking off Cumberland Island, Georgia.