Wrong Rubber Fired Up Oscar Wilde
A rubber diaphragm made of the wrong material, rust and scale-disabled high-expansion foam total flooding system, lack of maintenance local application and bilge foam systems and lack of thermal...
View ArticleQM2 Explosion/Powerloss: “critical equipment must ‘fail safe’,
In its investigation of an explosion and loss of propulsion aboard the RMS Queen Mary 2 Britain’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch warns that protection systems for critical equipment must ‘fail...
View ArticleThe Burning Question – Where’s Your Switch?
Do you know where your fire suppression system pressure switch is? And is it in the right place? Asks the US Coast Guard in a safety alert following a vessel fire in which the engine room ventilation...
View ArticleFV Denarius Fire: Crew Not Competent To See Burn Coming
For some five hours the main engine ran with retarded timing. A build-up of unburnt fuel eventually led to a fire that resulted in the vessel being abandoned. Says the newly release investigation...
View ArticleSafety Alert – Have You Checked Your Oil Purifier Lately?
The root cause of the fire was a faulty or defective sealing arrangement on the fuel oil purifier unit. A major contributory factor was the ineffective heat shielding of hot surfaces on the adjacent...
View ArticleSafety Runner/Barges Explosion – No Proper Manuals.
Towing vessel Safety Runner tied up on the Mobile River next to two Kirby barges at the Oil Recovery Company Gas Freeing Terminal, ORC, unaware that the barges were being cleaned of residual diesel....
View ArticleEarly Lessons From Insignia Fire And Personal Escape
Investigations into the 11 December 2014 engine room fire aboard Oceania Insignia continue into the engine room fire aboard the cruiseship Oceania Insignia which cost three lives but the US Coast Guard...
View ArticleMaersk Releases ER Fire Video
In an unprecedented move Maersk has released CCTV footage of an engineroom fire aboard Maersk Iowa to help determine the cause of the fire. The footage was posted on the gCaptain site.
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