Not long ago a question turned up on the Maritime Accident Investigation Group on Linkedin asking if anyone has heard of incidents/claims involving water spouts in deep sea areas. I’m familiar with the Whippoorwill on Lake Pomona and the Alligator in Charleston harbour but haven’t come across any involving deep sea. Now fellow maritime blog gCaptain has noted some extraordinary photographs taken recently in waters off Novorossiysk on the English Russia site.
There is also video if this extraordinary phenomenon.
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As an almost continuous stream of new reports about companies being fined and seafarers and company executives facing jail for illicit oil discharges show, the message is taking a long time to sink in. The chances of getting caught and seriously whacked for illicit oil discharges are increasing around the world from the US to China to Europe.
On 10 May, 2010, MAC released the first of a series of five videos related to Marpol Annex 1. Each video is in a ‘TV News’ format which provides an immediacy often missing from more traditional approaches and creates an effective learning environment.
The objective of the videos is to bring home the benefits of doing things right, and the serious hazards of doing them wrong, the Marpol regulations, the dangers of magic pipes, the need for OWS maintenance, SOPEP and, of course, the critical need for oil record books to be accurate, truthful and up-to-date.
Starting 10 May the five five-minute videos will be released at ten day intervals and will be free to Maritime Accident Casebook premium subscribers.
For further information click here
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An interesting BBC News report on the Estelle Maersk and efforts to increase efficiency and emission control.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8263651.stm
The Case Of The Silent Assassin
In September 2007, after broadcasting several audio podcasts and blog posts on the subject we realised that confined space/enclose space casualties were disturbingly common and seemed to be a major issue that wasn’t going away. We wanted to do something, however modest, to help address the situation. We discussed the issue with IDESS Interactive Technologies, which shared our concerns, and we agreed to collaborate in the production of three animated versions of MAC podcasts of which the first was to The Case Of The Silent Assassin, based on the Sapphire incident investigated by Ron Strathdee of the Isle Of Man registry.
Below is a low-resolution Flash version to keep bandwidth down. A full resolution version for DVD will be available shortly for download also at no cost.
If you would like a copy of the full version please csa@maritimeaccident.org.
Not long ago a question turned up on the Maritime Accident Investigation Group on Linkedin asking if anyone has heard of incidents/claims involving water spouts in deep sea areas. I’m familiar with the Whippoorwill on Lake Pomona and the Alligator in Charleston harbour but haven’t come across any involving deep sea. Now fellow maritime blog gCaptain has noted some extraordinary photographs taken recently in waters off Novorossiysk on the English Russia site.
