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NEW: The Case Of The Foggy Pilot (Cosco Busan)

When it comes to safe navigation, if you don’t ask a question right you’re not asking the right question and you won’t get the right answer.

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MAC Updates

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Maritime Accident Safety News – 15 June 2009

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MAC Main Site Updates

Lifeboat D-Ring Alert

Swine Flu Advisory

Don’t Lose Your Head When the Job Changes

Got An SST?

Put The Tardis Next To The ECDIS?

Now For The Good News – Four Years No LTA For Raisis Rig

Protect The Pirates Out Of Existence

Oil and Gas Set Up Helicopter Task Group

Danish Seafarers Get Terror Compensation

Post-Alabama Maersk Maintains ‘No Guns’ Policy

Maersk Kithira Death – Staff Didn’t Appreciate Risk

Sitting On A Drive Shaft Could Damage Your Tackle

Subic Bay Beers All Round for US Captain’s Release

SAFEDOR Completes Safer Ships Project

Pirates, Alabama and the Jones Act

Step Change Reflects on Piper Alpha and 2008

Maersk: We Don’t Need Security

Time for the Q-ships return?

Fire Protection Updates

First 3D Used In Former USSR

NI Launches Career Development Project

New Book Supports MAC

If Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan had followed safety procedures much like today’s PSSR requirements he might have been the first to sail around the world, as it was, an underling, Sebastian Elcano took the honors. Just one of the bits of trivia you’ll find in Chew The Bones, Bob Couttie’s third book,now available on Amazon.

It won’t get you an STCW certificate but proceeds will go towards supporting Maritime Accident Casebook and its podcasts.

Says the blurb: “Take a time-travelling journey of a thousand years of adventure and romance as you explore the unknown highways, byways and strange ways of an almost forgotten world. Dip into a unique, eye-opening collection of true stories they didn’t tell you at school. In this world slaves get benefits worthy of a corporate highflier. A redhaired hard-to-handle Hong Kong-born Irish teenager marries a man determined to change his country’s destiny. England’s Queen Victoria is given the world’s most expensive wedding dress, made by Filipinos. The last cavalry charge in American history begins with a hangover as the first Japanese bombs drop on the Philippines. A Scots-American widow find a new purpose protecting and building lives for the indigenous Aeta people of the Zambales Mountains.”

Help support MAC, buy the book from Amazon here

New Podcast: The Case Of The Benzene Bomber

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An explosion aboard a ship carrying flammable cargo is a master’s nightmare. This nightmare will really make your hair stand on end

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Scientists Raise Alarm On Hydroxilic Acid Safety Hazard

MAC has learned that a team of Norwegian and French scientific experts working in a central Philippines university are to publish a paper regarding the hazards of seafarer exposure to hydroxilic acid. Copies of the paper have been distributed confidentially to the International Maritime Organisation, the US EPA and the European Union’s Maritime Safety Directorate.

Professor Lorf Liopa and Dr. Avril Poisson, both on secondment to the Unibersidad Parang-Tangaiyan in the Visayas have expressed concern about the presence of hydroxilic acid discovered in the bloodstreams of seafarers during medical examinations. Read More here

Main Site Updates

Time for another update on what’s appeared on our main site at www.maritimeaccident.org

Donation Thanks

MAC Expands – The Best Known Voices In The Industry Could Be Yours

Is BO The Answer To Fatigue?

Upcoming Podcasts

Don’t Fall For Lousy Lighting

Mad Rock Gets Lifeboat Hook Award

Schatt-Harding – “hooks made of wrong steel”

How Not To Be A Crispy Welder

55th IASST International Safety Meet

Time To Make Fishing Safer – TSB Canada

MAIB Commends Saline Master, Crew

Mooring Injuries “Horrific”

Don’t Shiver Your Timber

Publication of Note: Understanding Mooring Line Incidents

MAIB Tired of Fatigue – “UK must go it alone”

NTSB On Cosco Busan: Unfit, Ineffective, Incompetent

Podcast – The Case Of The Tablets Of Love

You might not smell trouble
but you might see it coming,
even if it wears a mask

A seasick seafarer is later found dead in his cabin. The culprit? The notorious suicide pill known as the “Tablet of Love”, but how?

Learn the lessons of The Case Of The Tablets Of Love here