There are contact incidents are there are contact incidents. Check it out

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Nearly one in five seafarers are Filipino, the largest single nationality in maritime manpower so, from September, Maritime Accident Casebook podcasts will also be available in Tagalog, with thanks to professional voice-performer Ami Jacinto. Watch out for it! 

Crocs found on Ships

Posted 07/25/07 at 09:59 AM

Chinese police tracking a vessel on a border river in southwest China reportedly received a big surprise when they allegedly found 270 crocodiles, Xinhua News Agency reported. According the the report, the seizure was the largest this year in Guangxi region. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)

The International Association for Safety and Survival Training has bannered MAC on its home page. IASST was founded in 1980 by a group of major safety training providers whose aim was to enhance the quality of emergency response training by encouraging an interchange of knowledge and experience between training providers on a global basis. Since those early days, the membership has expanded dramatically into a truly international organisation with worldwide representation.

You can click on the IASST logo on the sidebar to go to their excellent website.

Watch and wince: ship versus bridge. Guess who wins? Here To find out

Amazing though it is, there are people in the industry who haven’t seen the German Coastguard commercial for Berlitz. It’s here

If you’re a Master Mariner, Australian and interested in maritime accident investigation the Australian Transport Safety Bureau might have just the job for ou. Check it out here.

gCaptain “By mariners for mariners” , a good friend of MAC’s, has listed some of the classic YouTube maritime videos, including the hilarious “German Coastguard” ad for Berlitz, and the poor old Pasha Bulker (That’s the grounded ship in our header picture, courtesy of David Stern) gets the Thunderbirds treatment.

Not maritime related but I do have Fedex pilots at the bottom of my garden and ‘Weather Avoidance The Fedex Way’ is clever and worth a few chuckles, unless, of course, you’re the German Coastguard.

Check them out here.

If you’re familiar with Maritime Accident Casebook you might notice a slight change in our sidebar. We’ve been awarded a Gold Maritime Web Award, click on the award logo and see what company we’re keeping.

The Maritime Web Award master is Lloyd’s marine broker Steve Harris. Here are some extracts from his email to MAC:

Thanks for letting us know about the Maritime Accident website.  Wow – it’s like manna from heaven for me !!! It is perhaps, almost needless to say that after an absorbing 30 minutes reading through the cases you’ve highlighted, your website is an easy GOLD award winning maritime website. But personally, lecturing on maritime matters to those in the marine insurance industry, to happen across such information is like gold-dust to me… I am a Lloyd’s marine broker (after 20 years as an insurer), with one of the large marine broking houses, tasked with trying to teach not only our own marine staff, (in the UK and around the world) but increasingly those of insurers, port authorities shipowners, banks, lawyers etc etc about marine insurance, precious few of whom, these days, have any ocean-going experience at all, and whose knowledge of marine matters is woeful. Thankfully it is quite a rewarding task, as I see people gaining knowledge that is so important if they are to understand the nature of marine hull and liability claims. Case examples are a vital way for me to illustrate the theory… Thanks for putting such an important and knowledgeable website together for the benefit of all.

Check out steve’s Maritime Web Awards here