MAC Turns One

June 30, 2008

Maritime Accident Casebook is now officially a year old and as we light
the candles, wearing appropriate PPE and extinguisher at the ready, we’d
like to thank all of you who have supported us, directly or simply by
taking notice of what we do and telling others.

The response from the maritime accident investigation community,
especially the members of MAIIF, as well as those involved in safety and
survival training, like the good folks at IASST, as well as the P&I
clubs who’ve taken and interest, feel that what we are doing is helpful
and have alerted their members to our existence, as well as
safety-related organisations such as MSF and Step Change, not to mention
the Nautical Institute and the maritime media such as Maritime Executive and

John Kondrad of www.gCaptain.com who has been a good friend of MAC and Steve Harris

who honoured us with his Gold Award.

And let me not forget to mention IDESS Interactive Technologies, which
has been very supportive logistically, thanks to them we have a home.

Most of all, we’d like to thank the seafarers who have done so much to
help get the word out and encourage others to take notice, and the
training organisations which have elected to use our materials to try
and make seafarers and ships a little safer.

True, we’ve had the occasional knockback, particularly in our birthday
month of June, with a major fire at our server provider followed by the
failure of some key bits of equipment that have taken a while to replace
fully and which have keep our popular podcasts off the air for a while,
but we’re back and with some great developments on the horizon.

Again, thank you all for your encouragement, for being part of our
community and for letting us be a part of yours.

Bob Couttie
Maritime Accident Casebook
www.maritimeaccident.org


Recent main site updates:

June 24, 2008

The Case Of The Triple Cross Transcript Released

June 16, 2008

At last, the final transcript of The Case Of The Triple Cross is now, read it, hear it, here. We are working through them as fast as we can.


Weekly Piracy Report

June 11, 2008

The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 3 to 9 June 2008.

Read More Here.


Zombie GPS

June 11, 2008

Comfortable that having eight GPS receivers from four different manufactures aboard will make sure you know where you are? Don’t be complacent…. Read more about this serious failure on our main site here.


IMPORTANT MAC UPDATES

June 10, 2008


We’re experimenting with MAC for Mobiles
which will enable you access this site using a mobile device, ie., a cellphone. The URL is the same: www.maritimeaccident.org, our server should know you’re on mobile and deliver accordingly.

We’ve made it easier to share your MAC materials with ours. At the bottom of each post or page you’ll see the ShareThis icon, click it and you’ll have the option to bookmark, post to a blog or send by email.

Finally, if you’re using MAC materials for training or education we’d like to hear from you. We’re happy you’re using them and we’d like to know who you are and what you think to help us develop MAC into an even more useful resource for you. Use our Contact form under the About tab or email us at mac at maritimeaccident.org.


Recent Posts At MAC

June 9, 2008

MSF Warning On Crane Sheaves

June 8, 2008

MSF advises checking crane sheaves after a cable partd recently. Read more here.


Maritime Safety News – 6th June 2008

June 6, 2008

Creciente Grounding Report Released

June 6, 2008

Extracts from the ATSB report on the breakaway and grounding of the Creciente in September 2006 are available on the MAC site here