Marine Safety Forum released an alert focusing on a case where a vessel experienced crankcase failure.
IMCA recently released its Safety Flashes for October, summarizing a case of a serious fire in an accommodation onboard a vessel at anchor.
The latest NTSB Safer Seas Digest report includes lessons learned from US maritime incident investigations. Following analysis of 42 cases NTSB warns that new lithium-ion battery hazards can be every bit as deadly as the worst storms.
NTSB commented, “The real world is a peculiar academy. We hope that this collection of lessons learned in the investigations closed in 2020 helps readers to take a step back and view their own operation with a cold, critical eye, then return to their day-to-day routines ready to take the appropriate action.”
The Safer Seas Digest runs to 112 pages. The key 14 highlights and lessons learnt from the Safer Seas Digest report are:
The Spanish philosopher, George Santayana once said:
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,”
In this short article, the UK P&I Club takes a look back one of the most notorious historical incident in maritime history, the sinking of Titanic. This casualty gives us the opportunity to examine the reported facts, to reflect and understand human error and avoid those mistakes from being repeated that others have made.