Maritime Safety & Security News – 26 November 2009

Two steamships col­lide in Azov Sea, one ship sinks, crew safe
ITAR-TASS
Accord­ing to a report of the cap­tain of that ship, no one of the crew had been hurt in the col­li­sion. No one of the crew of the Beryl was hurt either.

Death toll reaches 32 after ship sinks in Riau
Jakarta Post
… from a ship that cap­sized and sank in waters off Takong Hiu four days ago, bring­ing the death toll from the acci­dent to 32 as of Wednes­day afternoon.

Five res­cued after fish­ing ves­sel catches fire off Canada’s east­ern coast
Xin­hua
25 (Xin­hua) — Five crew were res­cued after their fish­ing ves­sel caught fire off Canada’s Atlantic coast Tues­day, reports reach­ing here said Wednesday.

Frog­men Sent to Seek Trapped Vic­tims of Dumex
KOMPAS.com
Sur­vivors from a sink­ing ferry, seen on board of a res­cue ship upon arrival at Tan­jung Balai Karimun port in Indonesia

Piracy

IMO rewards Iran for efforts to sti­fle piracy in Gulf of Aden
Tehran Times
TEHRAN – The Inter­na­tional Mar­itime Orga­ni­za­tion has awarded Iran for par­tic­i­pat­ing in the inter­na­tional efforts to repress piracy off the coast of Somalia

Off The Radar

Ice­bergs Head From Antarc­tica for New Zealand
New York Times
On Mon­day, Rod­ney Russ, expe­di­tion leader on the tourist ship Spirit of Enderby, spot­ted an ice­berg about 60 miles (100 kilo­me­ters) north­east of Macquarie

Endan­gered whales make a come­back, thanks to changes in ship­ping
Jamestown Press
By mov­ing ship­ping lanes 3.2 nau­ti­cal miles south­west, the risk of ves­sel strikes was reduced 96 per­cent, Brown said. Irv­ing Oil, whose tankers regularly