The emergency fire pump exists for the day the engine room is on fire and the main pumps are unreachable. It is tested rarely, sits in a compartment nobody visits, and fails on inspection more reliably than almost any other item aboard. By MarineCraft Journal · 2 September 2026 · 9 mins read … Read more
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 drill. Launching appliances carry their own testing regime, their own authorised-servicing rule, and their own recurring deficiencies. By MarineCraft Journal · 1 September 2026 · 9 mins read … Read more
Enclosed space entry kills experienced seafarers every year, and it kills the people who go in after them. The procedures that prevent it are well established and widely documented. They fail in the same handful of ways, and every one of those ways is visible to an auditor beforehand. By MarineCraft Journal … Read more
On an offshore platform, detection has to work before there is a fire. The system is watching for gas, not flame, because by the time something is burning the useful window has already closed. That inverts how detection is designed, maintained, and audited. By MarineCraft Journal · 28 August 2026 · 10 mins … Read more
A lifejacket that floats is not a compliant lifejacket. Inspectors write findings against lights, whistles, sizing, servicing records, and whether the crew can actually put one on in time. The buoyancy is almost never the problem. By MarineCraft Journal · 27 August 2026 · 9 mins read 1 minthe time in which a … Read more
Ships rarely fail firefighting audits because the equipment is broken. They fail because nobody can prove it was maintained. The extinguisher works, the pump runs, the system is charged, and the finding is written anyway, because the record that should sit behind each of those things is missing, late, or signed by the … Read more
