Visibility was reduced by fog to less than 30 metres but the Master, at the controls, was experienced in this run and the departure was kept to the schedule Another officer was also on the bridge.
A ferry was en route for its destination port. The passage plan had recently been used on three previous voyages and took the ferry from berth to berth.
The National Transportation Safety Board issued Marine Accident Brief 21/20 Tuesday for its investigation into the contact of a bulk carrier’s crane with a grain facility in Convent, Louisiana.
Failure of a diesel generator caused an engine room fire aboard a commercial fishing vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s Marine Accident Brief 21/19, released Tuesday.
Inaccurate stability calculations caused the capsizing of vehicle carrier Golden Ray that resulted in $200 million worth of damages, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
Candles lit and left unattended in a yacht’s VIP suite caused a fire that resulted in the total loss of the $6.3M yacht and $480,000 in damage to a Miami marina and adjacent vessels, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s Marine Accident Brief 21/17, issued Thursday.
In early 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic forced many cruise ship companies into an operational pause, resulting in many cruise ships anchoring in various locations for long periods of time.
In calm seas, a vessel was stopped while underway to allow the crew to undertake boat drills. While the lifeboats were tested, the rescue boat was launched and manoeuvred close to the ship by a three-person crew.
The lack of accurate tow size information and two pilots’ insufficient radio communication led to a fatal collision between two towing vessels in the Lower Mississippi River near Destrehan, Louisiana, according to a NTSB.