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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.

Tiz­zardlee On. Photo cour­tesy of Paul Watts Cor­nish Pic­ture Library

At a hear­ing in Bod­min Youth Court, Jake Gilbert, 17 years old, from Newquay, pleaded guilty to a breach of the Mer­chant Ship­ping Act.

On Sat­ur­day 12th Sep­tem­ber 2009, while crowds watched the Ladies Gig rac­ing from the har­bour wall, Jake Gilbert took his father’s fish­ing ves­sel, Tiz­zardlee On out of the har­bour with a num­ber of his friends on board. At the same time a small row­ing dinghy con­tain­ing a father and his 8 year old son were return­ing to shore after hav­ing moored their ves­sel in deeper water.

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Crew Mem­bers Dead from Pos­si­ble Food Poi­son­ing
Mas­ter of the Ari­onas tanker informed author­i­ties of the deaths of three crew mem­bers last Thurs­day.
Oper­ated by Evan­ge­los Marinakis-led Cap­i­tal Prod­uct Part­ners and Mar­shall Islands-flagged Greek tanker was en route from Cyr­pus to Rot­ter­dam with over 27,000 tonnes of fuel when the inci­dent occured.

Two miss­ing after boat with 92 pas­sen­gers sank in the Ama­zon
People’s Daily Online
Brazil’s Navy said that a patrol ship and a boat were sent to the acci­dent site to search for the miss­ing per­sons with the help of a team of divers.

Ship Loses Propul­sion in Strait of Juan de Fuca
A con­tainer ship in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in tran­sit to Wash­ing­ton state from Alaska, was shut down after crew noticed smoke com­ing from the num­ber one engine’s turbocharger.

Oil Tanker Car­ry­ing Con­t­a­m­i­nated Fuel Held at Dar es Salaam Port

The oil tanker that arrived at Dar es Salaam two weeks ago with con­t­a­m­i­nated oil has still not left the port and will be restricted from sail­ing until the dis­pute is set­tled. Con­tinue read­ing »

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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, Con­tinue read­ing »

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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