Lifting Teams and Dropped-Object Liability
Workforce & Training A dropped spanner from thirty metres carries roughly the energy of a small car at walking pace. Offshore lifting has more paperwork around it than almost any other routine task, and the reason is that the failure mo…
Life-Saving Appliances The lifeboat gets the attention. The davit and winch that lower it get far less, right up to the moment a brake slips during a…
HSE & Compliance Enclosed space entry kills experienced seafarers every year, and it kills the people who go in after them. The procedures that pr…
Firefighting Systems On an offshore platform, detection has to work before there is a fire. The system is watching for gas, not flame, because by the…
Smuggling-Boat Skipper Gets Five Years for Fatal Capsizing Off San Diego
A Mexican national who was the skipper of a small boat that capsized during an immigrant-smuggling attempt at California's southern maritime boundary has been sentenced to a long term in prison.
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Iran Renews Threats and Says It Turned Back Ships After US Sinks Tanker
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy unleashed a series of threats at commercial shipping and claimed to have attacked U.S. Navy assets in response to the U.S. accounts of attacking three tankers.
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Russia Opens Massive Vostok Oil Project and Sever Bay Arctic Port
Russia’s massive new oil field in the Arctic, Rosneft’s flagship Vostok Oil, officially began operations on September 5. Underlining the significance of the project, President Vladimir Putin participated in the ceremony via…
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Anti-immigration Protestors Block Dover, UK’s Busiest Ferry Port
Operations at the UK’s busiest international ferry and passenger port, Dover, were for the better part of Saturday, September 5, disrupted after hundreds of masked protestors blocked access.
Read more →ROV Inspection Confirms Wreck Site of Lost Turkish Freighter
Turkey's navy has found the wreck of th Tugberk Imamoglu, a coastal freighter that sank last week after a collision with a product tanker in the Sea of Marmara.
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