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Piper Alpha 20 Years On – Lessons In Listening for the Maritime Industry?

Command 2008 – The 14th International Command Seminar Series

Safety News Today – 30th May 2008

Maritime Safety News Today – 29th May 2008

Maritime Safety News Today – 29th May 2008 is now online at the News @ Mail section, click here.

Stowaways – A Deadly Business

Two communications arrived in MAC’s inbox over the past couple of days with bad news for the families of four now-dead stowaways.

Two bodies were found in a hold aboard the bulk carrier Pascal in Ayr, Scotland. The two men apparently boarded the vessel in Tunisia and hunkered down in a phosphate filled hold with a single bottle of water between them on or around 15th May before the hatches were sealed. Their bodies were discovered on 26th May, eleven days later.

On the day that story broke, Denmark’s Maritime Authority, DMA issued its report on the August 2007 deaths of two stowaways aboard the Danish coaster Danica Brown.

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BBC Islander On Fire – Fitter Couldn’t Read English

http://www.maritimeaccident.org/2008/05/28/islander-on-fire-fitter-couldnt-read-english/

Australia’s Transportation Safety Board has released its report on the fire aboard the BBC Islander last August. It isn’t a pretty sight. A fitter who couldn’t understand the ship’s SMS hot work requirements because it was in English, inadequate SMS procedures for risk assessment, lack of documentation on the whereabouts of damgerous cargo, and a firefighting team untrained in dealing with fire aboard ship.

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Watch Out For Bad Air Mozzies

Malaria is a potential threat to seafarers. Maritime Accident Casebook gives the low down on how not to get laid low, together with some downloadable materials to help keep you and your fellow seafarers free of this killer disease. Click here.

Maritime Safety News Today – 28th May 2008

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Weekly Piracy Report

IMB’s weekly piracy report is reproduced here.

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Maritime Safety News Today – 27th May 2008

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Maritime Safety News Today – 26th May 2008

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Enclosed space Entry Deaths – The Shipping Industry’s Shame

May 26th, 2008 by bobcouttie Edit |

In The Case Of The Electric Assassin I suggested that, if you’re going to enter an enclosed space without the proper equipment or precautions then dig two graves, one for yourself and one for the poor sods who’ll try and rescue you. That recommendations was validated by two virtually identical incidents, several thousand miles apart, within just 24 hours.

There’ll be little wonder that maritime casualty investigators grind their teeth in frustration when these enclosed space incidents occur, partly because they keep happening and partly because little is done to stop them happening.

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http://www.maritimeaccident.org/2008/05/26/enclosed-space-entry-deaths-the-shipping-industrys-shame/