Ship operators, Masters and crew need to be aware of the risks involved and assess the limitations of a vessels’ anchoring equipment.
Marine Safety Forum released an alert focusing on a case where a vessel experienced crankcase failure.
A refrigerated cargo ship had berthed in southampton to discharge a cargo of fruit. On the day of arrival the local port state authorities had boarded the ship in order to conduct a port state control (psc) inspection, which included a lifeboat drill. While securing the lifeboat after the drill, the ship`s bosun sustained minor injuries as the forward end of the lifeboat fell from its davit due to it not being correctly reset when it was hoisted from the water.
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: