Maritime Safety & Security News – 27 November 2009

Worker was fatally injured on load­ing dock — Labour and Work­force Devel­op­ment …
Pic­tou Coun­try Nova Sco­tia News
… work­place acci­dent Tues­day evening. Lloyd Keith Fancy was killed while work­ing at a load­ing dock at Mar­itime Steel and Foundries Ltd. in New Glasgow.

Five more bod­ies found after ferry cap­sizes
Jakarta Post
The five bod­ies were found float­ing near the site of an acci­dent involv­ing the KM Dumai Express 10, said Tan­jung Balai Karimun naval base com­man­der Lt. Col

8 injured in hydro­foil col­li­sion
The Green­lines 10 cap­tain said the acci­dent occurred while the ves­sel was maneu­ver­ing into a sharp turn. Hydro­foil ser­vices between HCMC and Vung Tau around 120 km to the south­east of the south­ern city, have been plagued with servic

New­found­land Pearl Crew Res­cued from Burn­ing Ves­sel
VOCM
Five crewmem­bers plucked from the frigid north Atlantic after their ves­sel, the New­found­land Pearl, caught fire are sched­uled to arrive in St John’s this .

Research ship arrives in Azov Sea to inspect boats’ col­li­sion place
ITAR-TASS
KRASNODAR, Novem­ber 26 (Itar-Tass) — The research ship Impuls arrived from Novorossi­isk on Thurs­day at the col­li­sion place of dry-cargo boats in the Sea of

Fatal acci­dent occurred in mod­er­ate con­di­tions
Diver­net
The sink­ing of an Egypt­ian live­aboard last week, which cost two people’s lives, occurred in con­di­tions which should not have posed a prob­lem to the ves­sel.

Piracy

Greek war­ship stops halts pirates
NEWS.com.au
The EU naval mis­sion said that the board­ing came a day after a failed attack on a French cargo ship, the MV Eclipse. The attack­ers fled under fire from

Niger­ian pirates may be extend­ing reach
The Asso­ci­ated Press
In com­par­i­son, there were 111 attacks by Somali pirates in 2008 and 202 so far this year, accord­ing to the Inter­na­tional Mar­itime Bureau.

‘Well-done’ IMO to Yemen over anti–piracy efforts
Yemen News Agency
26 (Saba) – The Inter­na­tional Mar­itime Orga­ni­za­tion praised on Thurs­day the utmost efforts Yemen exerts to fight piracy off Somalia.

Royal Malaysian Navy receives IMO award for anti–piracy OPS off Soma­lia
TwoCircles.net
… from the Inter­na­tional Mar­itime Orga­ni­za­tion (IMO) for its role in oper­a­tions against piracy in the waters off Soma­lia and in the Gulf of Aden.