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Crews remove barge from Sandbridge, Va., beach
AP Photo/Steve Helber: A US Coast Guard helicopter prepares to lower two salvage crewmen onto a large barge that broke free is on the beach near the Sandbridge fishing pier in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach, Va., Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Crews...
Incident Photo of The Week – M/V Marco Polo
The 128-m ferry Marco Polo, with 41 passengers and 64 crew, ran aground on the Croatian island of Sit on Oct. 24 at 0250LT while cruising on its regular Rijeka-Split-Dubrovnik-Barin service at 25 knots. No injuries were reported and the accident h...
M/V Marti Princess Vs Renate Schulte – Incident Photo Of The Week
More details on this January’s casualty-free collision of the M/V Marti Princess and M/V Renate Schultecan can be found HERE and HERE....
M/V Elli, A Crude Oil Tanker’s Broken Back – Incident Photo Of The Week
Crude oil tanker M/V Elli broke her back on August 28th after considerable hogging was witnessed while she was in ballast and anchored awaiting drydock near the Suez Canal. At last report the vessel, managed by Worldwide Green Tankers, was stable but...
Is Your Equipment Intrinsically Safe?
We are still debating whether this guy was using a flashlight, LED or his cell phone to check the level of this tank but we are certain it wasn’t Intrinsically Safe! Related Articles World’s Largest Non-Nuclear Explosion (6) Inciden...
Failure At Sea – Are Too Few Mariners Getting Failing Grades?
“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” Theodore Roosevelt The maritime world is full of strict rules that may only be broken “in extremis”. The best know of these rules are “Never Tur...
Polar Mist – A modern day treasure ship located off coast of Argentina
Today we have another update on an incident that occured back in January of this year. According the Associated Press, a team of divers have recovered nearly a ton of unrefined silver from the Polar Mist, a repurposed fishing vessel that sank off t...
USS Port Royal Grounding – Incident Updates, Links and Photos!
This update on the Feb. 5th USS Port Royal grounding incident comes after the topic has has started to pick up some steam again on the gCaptain forum following a report recently released by the Navy Safety Investigation Board. According to the repo...
Incident Photo – Southampton Crane Collapse
A worker is seriously injured after a crane collapses at Southampton Dock. According to BBC: Fire crews were called to Southampton Docks, owned by DP World, at Dock Gate 20 in Western Avenue, at 0520 BST. The crane, a twin boom rig with the cab sus...
Capsized Cruise Ship Visible on Google Maps
Original Photo Found HERE. While this is a rather old story, it just came to our attention through one of our many vast searches on the internet. This photo of a cruise ship shaped hotel in the southern port city of Busan, South Korea. The cruise...
Casualty Outlook
It’s been a bad week for lifeboats, once termed ‘the Pinto of the seas’. Over at Maritime Accident Casebook three incidents during drills and training have come to light, two on offshore platforms, one at an onshore training facilit...
Grand Ocean No. 1 - Incident Photo Of The Week
This week’s incident photo comes from a friend who just rounded the Cape Of Good Hope. The photos show the barge Grand Ocean No. 1 on the beach at Jacob’s Bay, South Africa. Related Articles Incident Photo of The Week - M/V Norwegi...
Lifeboat Air Bottle Explosion - Maritime Incident Photo Of The Week
This story comes via our friends at the excellent blog Maritime Accident Casebook (MAC for short). Bob Couttie writes: Of course you regularly check fire extinguishers for corrosion and environmental conditions that might encourage corrosion (You do,...
