Category Archives: maritime safety
Job –ATSB — Transport Safety Investigator — Materials Failure Specialist
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is looking for a qualified, experienced and highly motivated materials/metallurgical engineer, metallurgist or equivalent, to join the Canberra forensic materials engineering team.
The Transport Safety Investigator — Materials Failure Specialist will undertake forensic engineering investigations into transport accidents and incidents in accordance with the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003. In this unique and challenging role, you will contribute to the maintenance and improvement of Australian transport safety by examining, analysing and reporting on damage and failures associated with safety occurrences within the aviation, rail and marine transport industries.
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Beware These Bunkum Bomb Detectors
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SafeMed Newsletter
SeafeMad Beacon/Le Phare, quarterly newsletter, is now out.
Funded by the European Union and run by REMPEC, SafeMed aims to reduce maritime
accidents and pollution through coordinated action by providing a level-playing field for all stakeholders in the area, improving access to information for all, offering
training and assistance, and promoting a common platform for best practices to regulate maritime traffic in Mediterranean coastal states. (more…)
Personal Locators Snowed In – Later Says Oil & Gas UK
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Maritime Safety & Security News – 16 January 2010
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2 seamen survive ship boiler blast
Philippine Star
11 when a spark from the furnace triggered the explosion. Both of them were a meter away from the boiler at the time. “We were not treated at a hospital.
Skipper of trawler which got into difficulty lost boat 10 years ago
Press and Journal
Fraserburgh lifeboat was launched and took a fifth pump but that was not needed. The lifeboat escorted the trawler safely into port.
Skipper of trawler which got into difficulty lost boat 10 years ago
Press and Journal
Fraserburgh lifeboat was launched and took a fifth pump but that was not needed. The lifeboat escorted the trawler safely into port.
‘Gross negligence’ led to Baleno 9, Catalyn B sinking—Gordon «
By The Mindoro Post
Another survivor, Jonathan Umali, whose two relatives are missing, also told the Senate inquiry that he saw the ship’s captain, Jimmy Andal, eating and drinking with women on the bridge of the vessel. Six died in the MV Baleno 9 sinking
Pirates take new territory: West African Gulf of Guinea
Christian Science Monitor
Already home to an insurgency in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta – where attacks on oil facilities routinely cause world prices to spike
F/B Anatalia made emergency calls 40 minutes after collision –PCG …
F/B Anatalia made emergency calls 40 minutes after collision –PCG. January 15, 2010 10:50 pm. MANILA, Jan. 15 –A duty officer of the Vessel Traffic Monitoring System (VTMS) said on Friday that he suspected the emergency call flashed by
Round 3 heralds major offshore wind farm expansion
The future of offshore wind energy development in the UK is set to take a significant step forward following the announcement this week by The Crown Estate of the successful bidders for the nine exclusive Zone Development Agreements to develop wind farms under the Round 3 licensing arrangements.
NorthLink cancels Friday night sailings to and from Shetland
Shetland Times Online
Meanwhile the Lerwick lifeboat finally made it back to town at 2.50am on Friday morning, almost a day after being called out to go to the aid of a Danish
Piracy
Spain to push for port surveillance to fight Somalia piracy
Europolitics.info
She was referring in particular to the EU carrying out maritime interdiction operations that allow it to board, record and seize boats, embarkations and
Off The Radar
Freak jellyfish stings fairly frequent
ABC Online
A 45-year-old man was stung on the face by an irukandji jellyfish on a commercial ship in north Queensland on Sunday. Rescuers say he was 25 metres above
MAIB Safety Digest – Risk Assess Now – Before You Learn The Hard Way
Risk assessments, often, and unwisely, seen as little more than mere paperwork by busy seafarers are the focus of MAIB Chief Inspector Stephen Meyer in his introduction to the latest MAIB Safety Digest.
Writes Meyer: “It is only a year since I last wrote about the importance of risk assessments. However, in the past 12 months, so many deaths have been reported that could have been avoided by a simple consideration of the risks, that I feel compelled to return to the subject.
Just the phrase “risk assessment” is enough to cause most mariners’ eyes to glaze over. “More paperwork and bureaucracy” I hear you cry. But what I am after is the thought process, not the paperwork. Let me give you a couple of examples.
Three From Danish Quarterly
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Searching For Dropping Rogues
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Watertight Doors ‘Misunderstood’
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