Whilst the impacts of coronavirus are mostly negative across the board, there’s been one positive side effect, increasingly taking hold.
As a result of reduced travel and increasing business closure, pollution levels are dropping all over the world, and the environment is thriving.
As humans everywhere are forced to self-isolate due to the coronavirus pandemic, lowering pollution levels have led to the unexpected prevailing of nature.
Chances are that you have never boarded a lifeboat to date, except you are a seafarer who has performed lifeboat drills or someone who has found himself in the very unwelcome experience of a sinking ship.
Lifeboats save lives. Titanic had a limited number of lifeboats onboard because its construction was considered a technological miracle of safety and luxury. And this is why 1,500 out of the 2,200 people onboard perished in what is considered as the world’s most famous maritime disaster.
We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Suez Fuzeyya crew members for this lovely message passed to all of us ashore but most importantly to all our seafarers families on how to deal with COVID-19 spreading all around the Word.
Source: Capt Edwin Acupinpin / Capt. Suez Fuzeyya - Fleet Training & Familiarisation Officer / Principle Representative
Loss Prevention Circular No .14-10 by GARD
Background
When a vessel changes ownership and/or manager, the rule has generally been that the outgoing technical managers remove all maintenance records from the ship, leaving the incoming crew and management with minimum information on the condition of both ship and machinery. This has even been seen where ownership remains the same, and there is a simple change of management - the outgoing management leaves no information behind, thus putting the incoming management at a serious disadvantage and increasing the risk and uncertainty for both owners and underwriters. In one recent case involving a simple change of management, the superintendant could not find any information in the maintenance system and the previous technical manager was not very co-operative.