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A Fil­ipino sea­farer aboard the car car­rier Yohjin died because he did not wear a fall-arrester while arrang­ing stan­chions on a gang­way at Bre­mer­haven. He fell 5.5 metres to the quay wall, was still con­scious when an ambu­lance arrived but died a few min­utes later and resus­ci­ta­tion efforts failed.

The full report, cur­rently only in Ger­man, is avail­able from the Germany’s Bun­desstelle für See­un­fal­lun­ter­suchung, Fed­eral Bureau of Mar­itime Casu­alty Investigation.

MAC notes that the Master’s writ­ten instruc­tions are not very clear or unam­bigu­ous. They might been more effec­tive if illus­trated – easy enough to do with a camera-enabled cell­phone or dig­i­tal camera.

This is the lat­est of a series of inci­dent reports involv­ing gang­ways, vessel/vessel, vessel/shore and sim­i­lar access. Together they high­light a need to under­stand risk assess­ment and increase safety aware­ness regard­ing ves­sel access systems.

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BC Fer­ries reports five near col­li­sions in 2009

Van­cou­ver Sun

… with the US fish­ing ves­sel Fal­con at the west­ern entrance to Active Pass. “The ferry altered hard to star­board to avoid a col­li­sion,” the report states.

Navy Ship’s Crew Sick­ened By E. Coli

KPTV Port­land

The ship is dry-docked at the Cas­cade Gen­eral ship­yards on Swan Island. Offi­cials said Willamette River water used to fill the fire main tanks crossed into …

Trial into sink­ing of Juan-battered ship begins

TheChronicleHerald.ca

The badly dam­aged and con­t­a­m­i­nated ves­sel was raised from the ocean floor after Juan but sold for sal­vage by the insur­ance com­pany for $28888.’

RP still to rat­ify new mar­itime convention

Malaya

BY PAUL M. ICAMINA And time may be run­ning out for these sea­far­ers who send $2 bil­lion in … Each sea­farer has the right to a safe and secure workplace,

Chi­nese pay­loads to be removed from Galileo

The EC appears tp be about to order the builders of the 4 Galileo IOV satel­lites to remove the Chinese-built SAR payloads.

The move results from an evolv­ing secu­rity and technology-independence pol­icy — accord­ing to EC, gov­ern­ment and indus­try offi­cials at the Munich Satel­lite Nav­i­ga­tion Sum­mit. (more…)

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4 injured in Alang fire
Times of India
ALANG (Bhav­na­gar): Four per­sons were injured in a fire that broke out in a ship while it was being dis­man­tled at plot num­ber 123 of Alang ship break­ing yard

Crew of Russ­ian ves­sel fired on Caspian Sea evac­u­ated
Trend News Agency
After the res­cue ves­sel will be taken in tow and deliv­ered to the port of Baku to inves­ti­gate the causes of the acci­dent.

Piracy/Crime

Eight Somali pirates sen­tenced to 20 years for piracy

King­dom signs pact to fight sea piracy
Arab News
… ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The King­dom has signed a major mar­itime code of con­duct that calls for a revi­sion of national leg­is­la­tion to crim­i­nal­ize sea piracy.

First to the gal­lows for 26/11: RDX
Cal­cutta Tele­graph
The gun­men sailed in the Al Hus­saini ship up to the inter­na­tional mar­itime bound­ary, and then boarded the Indian trawler Kuber to reach Mumbai’s shores.

Off The Radar

Two ships at risk of not stay­ing afloat
Bal­ti­more Sun
“We don’t think she’s in immi­nent dan­ger of sink­ing, but then again, she hasn’t been pulled from the water since 1945. We have mon­i­tors and alarms,

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Worker killed at Ctg ship break­ing yard
Finan­cial Express Bangladesh
CHITTAGONG, Mar 12: A worker was killed in an acci­dent early today at Bha­tiary ship break­ing area under Sitakunda of the district.

Azer­bai­jani sailors res­cue Russ­ian crew in Caspian Sea
ITAR-TASS
The acci­dent occurred near Chilov Island in Azerbaijan’s ter­ri­to­r­ial waters overnight. Imme­di­ately after the dis­tress sig­nal was received, ves­sels and

Alaska-based Coast Guard air­crews con­duct simul­ta­ne­ous rescues

A Coast Guard HC-130 Her­cules air­craft and crew are search­ing for two crewmem­bers reported to have fallen over­board from the Han­jin Pre­to­ria, a 925-foot Liberian-flagged con­tainer ship, 850 miles south of Kodiak

yacht skip­per res­cued in Pacific
BBC News
A res­cue mis­sion has been mounted in the Pacific Ocean after the skip­per of a Hull-based yacht broke his leg when the ves­sel was hit by a huge wave.

Safety board inter­views Con­cor­dia cap­tain, offi­cers
TheChronicleHerald.ca
… Safety Board of Canada has fin­ished its first round of ques­tion­ing in the wake of the sink­ing of the sail train­ing ves­sel SV Con­cor­dia last month.

Guale ship under­goes repair
Solomon Star
The acci­dent was caused by an inex­pe­ri­enced cap­tain. Local wield­ers have been hired to patch up a hole in front of the ship. Because there’s no wharf in the

Piracy/Crime

EU Forces Sink Sus­pected Somali Pirate Ves­sel
Voice of Amer­ica
Photo: AP The Euro­pean Union’s anti–piracy naval force oper­at­ing off the coast of Soma­lia says it has sunk a sus­pected pirate ves­sel and seized another.

Somali pirates seize Kenyan fish­ing ves­sel
Las Vegas Sun
The owner has not been in touch and the ship was not reg­is­tered with mar­itime author­i­ties. The crew nation­al­i­ties and num­bers are unknown. .

AFM team being read­ied for Soma­lia oper­a­tion
Times of Malta
… directly affect­ing many mar­itime ser­vices we sup­ply such as bunker­ing and tran­ship­ment.” Piracy off the Somali coast has been a threat to international

Off The Radar

Nazi naval relic pits sal­vage oper­a­tor against Berlin

MONTEVIDEO — The Admi­ral Graf Spee, the Ger­man “pocket bat­tle­ship” scut­tled here in 1939, is caught in the mid­dle of a strug­gle between the busi­ness­man sal­vaging it and the Ger­man gov­ern­ment, which wants to pre­vent its commercialization.

Woods Hole robot lost at sea
Cape Cod Times
But when it returned to the almost two-mile deep area the fol­low­ing day, con­tact between the robot and the sur­face ves­sel abruptly ceased.