Tag: Safety Digest

In the latest edition of Safety Digest, the chief officer of a vessel slipped and fell into the water, in their effort to check the vessel’s forward draught during loading operations. Although the chief officer was not severely injured, they were taken to the hospital.

The second edition of Safety Digest outlines a number of incidents and marine casualties. A marine incident included, which will be explained below, concerns the collision of a gas carrier and a container vessel.

The second edition of Safety Digest outlines a number of incidents and marine casualties. A marine incident included, which will be explained below, concerns the collision of a gas carrier and a container vessel.

The U.K. Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) issued its second edition of Safety Digest for 2020, presenting the lessons learned from a variety of marine accidents, highlighting the key factors that cause an accident.

A ro-ro passenger ferry with 40 persons on board was approaching its berth, when one of its four main propulsion engines exploded. The engine had been completely rebuilt and after 5 hours of operation failed. In its latest Safety Digest, UK MAIB said the engine failure resulted from dirt lodged between a main bearing and its journal. The incident The vessel’s engineer was standing next to the engine at the time and suffered serious burns to his hands and face. Fortunately, the engineer’s cotton boiler suit protected the rest of his body from the blast. The engine’s crankcase shattered and fragments of the piston, gudgeon pin, connecting rod and big end bearing were ejected out of it during the explosion. Fortunately, again, the engineer was not hit by the shrapnel. The accident was witnessed by an engine room rating, who helped the engineer out of the engine room. Plastic covers and other combustible material on the engine caught fire and the vessel’s fire alarm activated. The master was on the bridge and could see the fire on his CCTV monitor, so he activated the water mist fire suppression system in the engine space. This extinguished the fire within 2 minutes. Less ...

In its latest Safety Digest, UK MAIB analyzes a vessel flooding and sinking caused likely by the catastrophic failure of the engine cooling water system hose or a hull fitting. MAIB stressed that the crew were saved thanks to wearing their auto-inflating lifejackets that kept them afloat.

In its latest Safety Digest, UK MAIB describes a case of fire on a vehicle on the car deck of a Ro-Ro vessel, resulting from an electrical short-circuit. The investigation highlighted that the crew’s quick and efficient reaction brought the situation under control and there were no injuries. 

In the 2020's Safety Digest, the UK MAIB refers to a container vessel that listed heavily to starboard, when the chief engineer decided to pump more water into the starboard ballast tanks to level up tank volumes, commenting that ballast operations should be planned to avoid any accident.

UK MAIB issued its 2020 Safety Digest, discussing about a passenger ferry which lost control due to weather conditions, as the master was unaware of an alternative quay and the local environmental conditions.

In its 2020 Safety Digest, UK MAIB focuses on a landing-craft fish farm support vessel which during the installation of storage tanks, it was released pressurised hydrogen peroxide, spraying onto the contractor.