Shocking Video: Launch of Fast Rescue Craft Gone Wrong, Man Overboard
If there is anything worse than sheer negligence of seafarers at sea, it is the lack of common sense and knowledge to quickly act in an emergency situation arising out of such negligence. This video aptly demonstrates the lack of professionalism and seriousness among these seafarers.
We do not have much knowledge on the video, but it is clear that these people are trying to launch a fast rescue boat when the ship is underway. The launching process goes terribly wrong, as the craft almost tips, throwing the people overboard. What is more surprising to watch is the ship crew’s inability to act quickly during the man overboard situation. The crew members just stand staring at the craft from the deck, as the people from the craft go overboard and disappear into the sea.
It’s embarrassing to watch the video, as the people on board the craft struggle while the ship’s crew stand as mere spectators.
Watch the video to get a sense of the height of stupidity and lack of professionalism of these ship’s crew:
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They should cut-off the painter once the FRC boat touches the water so that it can propel on her own.
First, it looks like they were going way too fast to launch that craft; second, the sea painter was absolutely useless being up that high and at such a steep angle for launching that boat…third….no frapping lines to help keep the craft close to the hull until it’s launched? and the angle at which the boom was out from the hull didn’t help at all to keep the craft near the ship as it touched the water. All around, a horrible display of seamanship.
As rightly commented by Steve, the speed appears to be high, the painter must be ‘as low and as far forward as possible’ – this was not followed. When the craft is water borne, the painter length must be adjusted to take weight and keep the craft moving along the ship, the falls wil not allow it to go far from the essel. Here full load was on the falls with painter being useless, it was not executed correctly, and once things went wrong, no one knew what to do next – slow down / stop the mother vessel, alter to stbd, take the painter fwd and take weight on it. Luckily the falls did not part, or the situation could be worse. Falls are not designed to take such load.
Hi Raunek, where are you based, and how do you share your views?
Hey thank goodness all those seafarers were required to take Basic STCW type courses. Now we see that all the training in the world doesn’t mean anything if you have incompetent senior mates and engineers.
This video is the tip of the iceberg in the criminal incompetence of ship board operations that are being conducted today. Oh the boat is well painted (this was a boat not a ship) and the logs are well maintained, but is the crew properly trained or better yet, properly lead. I think not.
This incident occurred during delivery trials, offshore Thailand. The vessel was under control of the shipyard, and dare I say it with a Class Surveyor on board. It was previously commented on last year in this group, the incident was two years ago.
I agree that its a fine example of poor boatwork, but you cannot blame any crew for it, all involved were, and probably still are, lubbers.
And yes I do know the ship. owners and shipyard!
I do not see what difference having a class surveyor aboard would make. The real question is what were they trying to demonstrate? Launching a fast attack craft from a littoral support vessel at speed is one thing, but why would you launch a fast rescue craft at speed without slowing or crash stopping theother vessel?
For goodness sakes. The lack of urgency by those with authority – on board – to slow the vessel prior to launch of the FRC, to properly use the painter line from forward on the ship to the bow of the FRC to keep the FRC parallel to the ship until the FRC crew is ready to be self propelled, to order an immediate look out for those overboard, to immediately commence a starboard MOB procedure vs. port-side – is catastrophically overwhelming. Boatlawyer
Stop the friggin ship. Go back and pick them up.
the exact same thing happen to me before.its because everyone dosent understand what they have to do in the situation,
All a bunch of useless cunts!
This problem is nothong new for me anyway, we had the same problem in 2001 on a newbuilding at the sea-trial in Japan. The FRB was to be delivered with the ship and had a man from the manufacturer on the trial, resulting in, that almost both man & boat went under! Luckily we were a good team of old good seafarers on board and could manage to get both him & boat saved, while the team from the shipyard just managed to look on! Unbelivable what people are having the responsibility….Today back at sea as Master Mariner.
Class surveyors are useless lot nowadays. Their career seems to be at the mercy of their pay master
absolutamente malas maniobras y malos ejecutantes.. del MANDO … ni imaginar trabajar con ellos….CAPITAN ..INCONPETENTE…TRIPULACION…OBSOLETA… y quizas malos mantenimientos en las jarcias… MAL CONTRAMAESTRE!!!
Why was the ship turning to starboard while launching the fast craft to port? And where were the commands “All stop, rudder amidships” and then once they slowed, “All back, slow astern” to stop the ship and then orders to recover the boat and circle back to recover those overboard; or to safely release the boat to recover?
Absolutely appalling display of bad practice at all levels. And who the heck decided to go to port rather than starboard for the Williamson turn? You trying to kill the guys in the water? Never mind the absence of any urgency at any point. I don’t care whether these guys are from the shipyard or not, the vessel should always be manned with competent crew which none of these guys in the video are.
2nd Mate on UK dredgers
Neil Morris says:
August 26, 2013 at 11:14 pm
This incident occurred during delivery trials, offshore Thailand. The vessel was under control of the shipyard, and dare I say it with a Class Surveyor on board. It was previously commented on last year in this group, the incident was two years ago.
you cannot blame any crew for it, all involved were, and probably still are, lubbers.
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Hello all marine experts,
If what Simon said is true, then all the experts sitting on shore should apologize to all the mariners in the world, because it’s always easiest to blame the sailors – Why not Nobody protects them as a group in the world. In French we say they need to eat their hat now
To all seamen – Bon Voyage
Shimeon – Superintendent of Mega Container vessels
Before watching the video, i knew that the ship is new and the people watching are not the ship’s crew but the d/dock people and surveyors.
I’ve been to sea-trials before and i know it is a sea-trial maneuver.
Ship’s crew carry-out tests with the off-load & on-load release when the vessel is at anchor and never with a running ship.
when it occure, why didn’t manover board procedure followed immidately,
in this situation a mooring rope cannot take out may be have something missing. but i thang when ship underway should not to launch rescue boat.
I don’t like the articles comments. The writer has no idea what was going on, and what really happened, or why certain people “appeared” not to act. I left right before that incident happened, and there is another crew member from that vessel at the time, with the company I am with right now, too.
I don’t know what Capt. Sing is a Captain of, but the speeds were not too high for the operation. The current may appear to be fast, but that is an illusion. It is fast, not not as fast as implied.
If my last comment gets posted, please disregard, as I was mistaken in which event this was. I confused ith with a WG event in 2008 or 9.
idiots. Ship speed was too high for a test but should have been fine. If the bow line had been well forward and tied fast then releasing all the other lines would have solved the problem. But watching one guy trying to hang on to the bow line without it being properly secured is a sad sight.
It should have remove all lines and engine running release on load 1 meter above water.
primero la nave va full marcha segundo donde esta el contramaestre tercero donde esta el primer oficial o el segundo cuarto los marino que están en el bote de rescate todo estaban en un solo lugar por que no quitaron el pin por ultimo los compañero que estaban en la cubierta todo tranquilos mientras que los otros se perdÃan en el mar para mi error del capitan y el primer oficial
All officers o.b are stupid.
Just lowering the boat w/out thinking safety.
One thing i notice is the painterline is just about 45 deg. When the boat been lowerd.
What a stupid move.
Once afloat, the FRB, under the lowing cable tension, acting as a towing line, started girting (girthing or girding, phenomenon well known by tugboats Captains). it exerted a heeling moment enough to capsize it.
To overcome such incident it is recommended to give enough slack to the lowering cable letting the forward painter to gather enough tension to bring the FRG alongside the ship’s hull.
1-fwd painter should fasting more fwd.
2-they give high speed in boat.
3-at once some body must slack fwd painter.
speed of the ship has nothing to do with and yes the front painter is needed the only thing you have to do is make sure your frc matches the speed of the ship before it hits the water.you can have the frc going at a higher rpm because it is easier to slak back abit .to keep the frc along side.i know what i am talking about because i have done it hundreds of times,done it being stop and at all diff speeds.
they even maneuver the ship the wrong turn, exposing the rescue boat more as they did the turn!
This was a scene filmed on the anti whale ship, Sea Shepherd, it just goes to prove my point about how incompetent and unprofessional they are. They were going to lay wire ropes around the whale catcher to destroy her propellors. Numpties. There were fatalities involved in this incident
The root cause of the incident was the Hook did not release once the boat hit the water.Did the crew arm the release mechanism at 1 meter above the water as normal procedure,I doubt it.Yes the painter was a major problem,the davit was too far out and the Coxswain had no control of the boat.I have trained FRC crews and work as an offshore Coxswain,having done thousands of launches underway at sea.Those conditions were about as good as you get and the speed was fine(4 to 5 knots is standard) it is the level of competency of all involved that is the issue. If you want the problem addressed,send me out there to train them. Website is Workboatsafety.com.
Karl