Real Life Incident: A Knife Near Miss
A vessel was underway and experiencing severe rolling and pitching due to a heavy, long swell. In the galley, personnel were preparing the next meal.
A vessel was underway and experiencing severe rolling and pitching due to a heavy, long swell. In the galley, personnel were preparing the next meal.
In the dark early morning hours, a service boat had been ordered to transport five crew members to an anchored tanker.
A vessel was at anchor near a port and a service boat had been ordered for the transport of six on-signers to board. In the morning, the six vessel crew boarded the service boat.
A container ship was underway at about 15 knots in an estuary, in daylight and good weather conditions, and approaching the pilot boarding station to pick up a pilot.
A feeder container ship docked in the early morning hours before sunrise. Soon after the gangway was in place, the port lashing foreman boarded the ship to carry out safety checks on deck for the cargo working areas.
A vessel was underway in good weather. Two deck crew had been directed to paint the underside of the external stairway landings at bridge deck level. Find out what happened inside the article.
A loaded vessel was departing a berth in very confined waters without tug assistance.As the vessel moved away from the berth, the stern came into heavy contact with the berth. Find out what happened.
A tanker had berthed at jetty 1 for partial unloading. There was a weak flood tide and the vessel did not use tugs. The arrival pilot discussed tug use for the vessel’s departure and informed the Master that use of a tug was mandatory for vessels departing jetty 1 on an ebb tide.
A chemical tanker was discharging in port and two crew members were working to top-up the air pressure in the lifeboat air supply cylinders. One crew member was in the compressor room and operated the compressor while the other was in the lifeboat to connect/disconnect the air hose to the cylinders and validate the pressure.
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