Category Archives: fire
Ship Of Shame Kills Three — An Tai Jiang Fire
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She would have been on anyone’s ship of shame: Safety alarms that did not work, fire-fighting equipment that did not operate, lifeboat engines that could not start, seafarers not trained to use equipment that would keep them alive and a leadership that lost the plot in an emergency. Her name was An Tai Jiang and, in relatively forceful language Hong Kong’s Marine Department, in its report on a January 2009 engine room fire, says that she was a substandard ship that should not have been entered in its registry.
An Tai Jiang, an ashphalt carrier, was flagged in Hong Kong.
DMA – Fishing Boat Had No Fire Detector
Bico departed Hirtshals on 18. September 2009 at approximately 09.40 (local time) in order to
conduct net fishing in the North Sea. Approximately one hour after departure the skipper was setting his nets, when the engine suddenly stopped. When he opened the access to the engine room, he was met by large flames.
Poor Safety Culture Fired Up FPSO — ““Maersk has failed to meet their duty of care” — Maersk Ngujima-Yin Fire
Demark’s Division for Investigation of Maritime Accidents says that the crew of the Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel, FPSO, Maersk Ngujima-Yin handled emergency response and fire fighting effectively and competently with what they had during a fire onboard but identified a lack of safety culture and criticised management for not providing the means necessary to accommodate and coordinate the interests of the project team and the operations team, acted inadequately on the feedback from the FPSO crew during the project and has not been able to re-establish a healthy safety climate on board and says that the support for maintenance on board provided by management has been inadequate.
Of particular note in this report is that the onboard crew took ownership of safety but lost confidence in onshore managers with regard to safety and maintenance.
Voluntary Fire Equipment, Timely Response Saved Lives – Queen Of The North
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Fire suppression equipped installed voluntarily by Majestic America Line aboard the replica paddlewheeler Queen of the North following an engine room fire on 8 April 2008, says the US National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB. Concerns regarding the lack of ‘out-of-water flotation’, which are not legally required in vessels of this type, have resulted in a recommendation to the US Coast Guard to require out-of-water survival craft for all passengers and crew be provided on board small passenger vessels on all routes.
NTSB To Sit On Paddling Queen
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public board meeting at 0930 local time on Tuesday, 17 November, 2009, on a fire in the engine room of the 221-foot-long US small passenger vessel Queen of the West.
On April 8, 2008, the vintage-style, paddlewheel vessel was travelling east on the Columbia River near Rufus, Oregon, with 124 passengers and 53 crewmembers on board, as part of a 7-day cruise. The vessel had both an automatic fire detection and fixed fire suppression system on board, which functioned properly by alerting the bridge team and suppressing the fire.
How Not To Burn A Feed — Sea Charente
On 1 October 2009 Sea Charente loaded 1900 tonnes of animal feed wheat pellets in Ghent, Belgium. During loading the 300 watt hold lights, which were an unapproved modification carried out under the vessel’s previous ownership, were switched on.
While on passage to Glasgow, smoke was seen to escape from the cargo hold’s starboard after ventilation terminal. Soon afterwards the hot hold lights were found to be still switched on.
Flash Backs and First Aid — Saldanha
On 18 November 2008, while the Maltese registered bulk carrier Saldanha was anchored off Newcastle, NSW, a ship’s engineer was burned when the auxiliary boiler furnace ‘flashed back’ during a routine boiler oil firing unit burner exchange.
The ATSB investigation into the incident found that the ship’s crew was not aware of all of the hazards associated with maintaining the boiler burner; was not aware of previous flashbacks involving similar burners; and not aware of the appropriate first aid treatment required for burn injuries. The investigation also found that the safety bulletin that had been previously issued by the manufacturer did not inform operators that the oil firing unit could be modified.
Maritime Safety & Security News – 5 September 2009
Hundreds rescued from sinking ferry in Philippines
Reuters AlertNet
The “Superferry 9″ vessel was carrying about 960 passengers and crew when it set off from General Santos City, on the southern island of Mindanao,
Expert committee to investigate sunken ship case: Macedonian …
Focus News
It is still early to identify the reasons for the accident, he said. He added that the ship had been registered in compliance with all standards and the
Four NL fishermen rescued after vessel burns, abandoning vessel
The Canadian Press
The accident happened yesterday about 134 kilometres east of the community on the island’s northeastern coast.
Maritime Safety & Security News – 31 August 2009
Boat sinks in Indonesia, ’19 dead, 20 missing’
AFP
JAKARTA — An “overloaded” cargo vessel sank on a river on Borneo island on Sunday, killing 19 people with 20 still missing, an official said.
Oil tanker fire in Brisbane
NEWS.com.au
About 12.30am, the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service was called to the Australian-registered ship Palmerston’ when the fire broke out.
Sinking ship triggers alert
Ipswich Evening Star — Ipswich,England,UK
A MAJOR collision between two ships in Dutch waters has been the focusing the attention of coastguards in East Anglia today.
