Case Studies
Real Life Incident: Collision In Plain Sight
A partially loaded tanker was underway at about 12 knots in a safety fairway. An OOW and lookout were on duty and the helm was
December 6, 2019
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A partially loaded tanker was underway at about 12 knots in a safety fairway. An OOW and lookout were on duty and the helm was
A car/truck carrier, loaded with new and used vehicles, was underway at sea when the fire alarm sounded in the cargo compartment on deck 1
Image Credit: nautinst.org A self-unloading cement carrier was underway in ballast. The OOW began a routine ballast water exchange as required under the ship’s ballast
While at anchor, the deck crew was testing the port and starboard lifeboat davits, lowering the boats to deck level without a crew on board,
A large container vessel was arriving at the port in heavy weather; approx 40-knot winds and almost four-metre swells. The vessel manoeuvred at about 10
A product tanker had been discharging cargo for about six hours. Around 1800 the OOW started loading segregated ballast; the vessel had about a metre
A 9000+ TEU container ship was underway when a fire alarm sounded in cargo hold nine and smoke was seen coming from the hatch in
Some deck crew were engaged in casting off a bunker barge. As they were letting go the lines on the upper deck, they heard a
A tanker was berthing at a terminal. At the aft mooring station, a crew member saw that the slack mooring rope was not feeding out
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