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Fel­low Blo­gista Den­nis Bryant warns: “There are unof­fi­cial reports that the 8.8 mag­ni­tude earth­quake that struck Chile last month has moved parts of the nation. The city of Con­cep­tion may have moved as much as ten feet to the west, while San­ti­ago may have moved eleven inches to the west-southwest. Even areas out­side Chile, includ­ing the Falk­land Islands and Brazil, may have been affected. As yet, there are no reports of ele­va­tion changes, but mariners nav­i­gat­ing waters in and around Chile should exer­cise cau­tion until defin­i­tive new sur­veys are done. The 1964 earth­quake in Alaska caused sig­nif­i­cant ele­va­tion changes, par­tic­u­larly at Kodiak Island, and resulted in a num­ber of ground­ings until charts could be updated.”

It’s worth remem­ber­ing that earth­quake can, and do, change seabed pro­files sig­nif­i­cantly enough to inval­i­date chart data. This will hap­pen more often in geo­log­i­cally unsta­ble areas such as on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

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Skip­per denies not being at helm when boat crashed
Her­ald Sun
A TRAWLER skip­per who says he only saw another boat just before they fatally col­lided has denied fail­ing to see the ves­sel because he was not at the helm.

AGL Resources Exec Likely Fell In Mis­sis­sippi River-Police
Wall Street Jour­nal
But it shows him walk­ing around the ves­sel at about 2:40 am Fri­day and then leav­ing the camera’s view, Defillo said. Schantz never reap­pears in sight and

Lit­tle kayaks big dan­ger to Manly fer­ries
The Manly Daily
AFTER a Coroner’s inquest last month found “fail­ure of sea­man­ship” led to a fatal col­li­sion between a Syd­ney Ferry ves­sel and a pri­vate boat,

US Coast Guard Com­pletes First Day of Hear­ings in Port Arthur | Coast …
By cgnews
He also dis­cussed the sta­tus of the vessel’s equip­ment and weather con­di­tions dur­ing the tran­sit up to the point of the acci­dent. A.T.K.M. Shah­jalall, chief engi­neer of the Eagle Otome, tes­ti­fied con­cern­ing the sta­tus of the ships

Chop­per inquiry begins, will hear from sole sur­vivor
Edmon­ton Jour­nal
… of an off­shore oil rig on the Grand Banks of New­found­land in this file photo. ST. … safety and bring down the like­li­hood of an acci­dent or acci­dents,

US Coast Guard to Release More Info on Ves­sel Sink­ing
VOCM
The Coast Guard is expected to release more infor­ma­tion today about the sink­ing of a ves­sel at the wharf in Con­cep­tion Harbour.

Off The Radar

High Diver
Zugs­berger, a diver injured in an oil rig acci­dent, tes­ti­fied he had a physician’s rec­om­men­da­tion say­ing he could pos­sess up to 5 pounds of marijuana,

82 years and wait­ing
Wicked Local
All aboard the Lee sur­vived the ground­ing with­out injury. Some even slept through the night with­out real­iz­ing the ship had run aground in the fierce

SA Navy to send frigates to guard soc­cer stadiums

Piracy/Crime

Hijacked UBT OCEAN arrives off Somalia

The chem­i­cal tanker Mar­shall Island flagged UBT Ocean hijacked on Fri­day, is now reported in the vicin­ity off the pirate strong­hold east of Haradere.

Piracy attempt on Mal­tese ship foiled, Navy rushes help
Busi­ness­Ghana
The Coast Guard, on its part, rushed its ves­sel ‘CGS Annie Bas­ant’ and a Dornier mar­itime patrol air­craft to ren­der assis­tance to the dis­tressed vessel,

UBT Ocean has a crew of 21 and they are all from Myanmar/Burma. UBT Ocean with dead­weight of 9,380 tones was head­ing from United Arab Emi­rates to Dar Es Salam when hijacked on Fri­day morning.

NATO votes to extend man­date to fight piracy
Stars and Stripes
… to thwart inci­dents of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the Horn of Africa near the Somali Basin. On Fri­day, Stand­ing NATO Mar­itime Group 2 will take

Pirates tar­get trop­i­cal tourist hot spot
msnbc.com (blog)
The grow­ing high-seas ban­ditry is a blow to Sey­chelles’ econ­omy, and piracy is cited as one of the major rea­sons for last year’s 30 per­cent fall in port

Kenyan-flagged Span­ish fish­ing ves­sel high­jacked by pirates

Off The Radar

High Diver
Zugs­berger, a diver injured in an oil rig acci­dent, tes­ti­fied he had a physician’s rec­om­men­da­tion say­ing he could pos­sess up to 5 pounds of marijuana,

We are cur­rently resolvig a hard­ware issue which has affected deliv­ery of Mar­itime Safety & Secu­rity News and other up dat­ing items.

Bob Cout­tie
Admiistrator

Labour MP for Inver­clyde, David Cairns, has with­drawn a bill from sec­ond read­ing in the UK Par­lia­ment with would have made manda­tory the rec­om­men­da­tions made by the Marine Acci­dent Inves­ti­ga­tion Branch, MAIB, in its acci­dent reports. The bill was opposed by Sadiq Khan, Min­is­ter of State for the Depart­ment for Trans­port and also a Labour MP.

The 10-minute Bill was intro­duced on 20 Octo­ber 2009 fol­low­ing the release of the MAIB report on the Decem­ber 2007 cap­size and sink­ing of the tug Fly­ing Phan­tom in fog on the River Clyde with the loss of three crew. MAIB made rec­om­men­da­tions to Clyde­port, Lloyd’s Reg­is­ter, Svitser Marine and the British Tug Own­ers Asso­ci­a­tion. By law­MAIB reports do not deter­mine lia­bil­ity and may not used in the courts to do so.

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Ves­sel “sub­stan­tially dam­aged” in col­li­sion with tug

West­ern Telegraph

Coast­guards said the inci­dent had caused no pol­lu­tion and has been reported to the Marine Acci­dent Inves­ti­ga­tion Board.

UK: Listed TSHD Heron escorted to safety by lifeboat
Dredg­ing Today
The Tamar class RNLI lifeboat, Mark Mason, was launched just before 5.30pm to go to the aid of the Rotterdam-registered hop­per dredger Heron,

Inquiry launched into Cras­ter lifeboat cap­size
Prac­ti­cal Boat Owner Mag­a­zine
An inquiry has been launched into how a Northum­ber­land RNLI lifeboat cap­sized in heavy seas. Three RNLI lifeboat­men had to be res­cued after Cras­ter inshore

Trawler skip­per describes har­bour crash

Syd­ney Morn­ing Herald

But sud­denly he thought he saw a ves­sel about “10 feet in front of the boat”. He then heard a “loud bang” and realised it was another boat. .

June 10 Trial Set For Ethan Allen Lawsuit

North Coun­try Gazette

NTSB deter­mined the vessel’s sta­bil­ity was insuf­fi­cient because it car­ried 48 per­sons where post–acci­dent sta­bil­ity cal­cu­la­tions demon­strated that it should (more…)