Maritime Safety & Security News – 12 November 2009

Fish­er­man dragged to his death after leg got tan­gled in rope
Scots­man (sub­scrip­tion)
Mr Duffy was one of the six crew­men on board the ves­sel when he was lost over­board. His body has never been recov­ered. A pre­lim­i­nary report on the acci­dent,

2 Fil­ipino sea­far­ers hurt in ship fire in United Arab Emi­rates …
Nov 6, 2009 … Two Fil­ipino sea­men were injured after their ship caught fire five miles off Khor Fakkan port in Shar­jah in the United Arab Emi­rates (UAE).

Small fuel leak from sink­ing tug in Seat­tle
Seat­tle Post Intel­li­gencer
Work­ers in the area smelled diesel about 3 am and dis­cov­ered the ves­sel rest­ing on the bot­tom with its wheel­house above the water line.

Barge hits Jef­fer­son Parish bridge
WXVT
Kerver said inves­ti­ga­tors don’t believe Ida’s winds or storm surge played a big part in the acci­dent. Water­ways in New Orleans were open to lim­ited ves­sel .

Sunken ship crew mem­bers leave India
Times of India
“We are the ship’s crew and are not respon­si­ble for the acci­dent,” a crew mem­ber said. The Bangladesh high com­mis­sion and embassies of Ukraine and Russia

Inves­ti­ga­tors probe child’s port acci­dent death
Irish Exam­iner
Inves­ti­ga­tors are tonight prob­ing the death of a three-year-old boy in a tragic acci­dent at Drogheda Port. It is under­stood the young­ster was with his

No lights and lousy look­outs, ferry crash inquest hears
Daily Tele­graph — Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
… keep a look­out led to a col­li­sion with a ferry on Syd­ney Har­bour that killed … step­son Sean Car­low nav­i­gate his recre­ational ves­sel Merinda on a night .

Mar­itime traf­fic con­troller to escape charges over MSDF destroyer …
By The Mainichi News­pa­pers
Mar­itime traf­fic con­troller to escape charges over MSDF destroyer-container ship col­li­sion. The Japan Coast Guard will not press charges against a mar­itime traf­fic con­troller over a col­li­sion between a Japan­ese Mar­itime Self-Defense

Ferry sys­tem: Aug. acci­dent cost $327000
Seat­tle Times
The acci­dent also dam­aged the ter­mi­nal slip. Inves­ti­ga­tions by the Coast Guard and ferry sys­tem deter­mined the acci­dent was caused by human error,

Deck offi­cers’ short­age still per­sists despite world cargo slump
Busi­ness Mir­ror
The Philip­pines sup­plies about 30 per­cent of the world sea­farer pop­u­la­tion, but most of these are rat­ings, or those sea­far­ers not in the management

Piracy

Somali Pirates Seize Cargo Ship
New York Times
By MOHAMMED IBRAHIM MOGADISHU, Soma­lia — Somali pirates said Wednes­day that they had seized a con­tainer ship after a five-hour chase in fast skiffs across

50% drop in sea piracy inci­dents in Asia reported
Philip­pine Star
Chris Trelawny, head of the Inter­na­tional Mar­itime Orga­ni­za­tion (IMO) Mar­itime Secu­rity Sec­tion Mar­itime Safety Divi­sion, said that last year there were 10 .

Off The Radar

Owl mak­ing good recov­ery after being res­cued from oil rig in North Sea
Scot­tish Daily Record
“It seemed to perk up after a cou­ple of hours, so we organ­ised a sup­ply ves­sel to take it onshore. “Appar­ently, it’s doing quite well and is now flying

angel for sea­far­ers
Emi­rates Busi­ness 24/7
There are cur­rently more than 300 ports around the world where the Mis­sion to Sea­far­ers are sta­tioned and they have been oper­at­ing in Dubai since 1962.