Seafarer Survives Four Days At Sea With Fractured Spine After Fall
A Filipino seafarer is recovering in hospital after fracturing his spine falling from a ladder on 14 November.
A Filipino seafarer is recovering in hospital after fracturing his spine falling from a ladder on 14 November.
The chief engineer (CE) and an assisting crew member were to remove some stainless steel bolts. In the process, the moving bolt crushed the CE’s finger against the recessed sleeve in which the nut and bolt were housed.
Watch this video showing a container truck being lifted by the dock crane after it is not properly detached from the container.
Routine ’travelling manoeuvres’ of the vessel’s gantry crane by a ship’s officer were being undertaken at port. The assistant electrician, probably standing near the top of the hatch access ladder, was caught and fatally crushed between the hatch lifting hook and the guide beam of the moving gantry crane. Read more about the unfortunate accident inside the article.
A cargo barge laden with gravel, capsized on the Rhine at Basel, Switzerland in August this year. The passenger ferry “Olympia”, which was crossing the river, was unable to prevent a collision with the upturned 30-metre barge.
On completing discharge, a tanker was ordered by the port to vacate the berth and tie up at a waiting berth, about 8 miles upriver. The assigned berth was identified with some difficulty on the chart and was seen to be on a sharp bend in the river.
Watch the failure of lifting operation of a huge anchor which could have turned fatal if the crew wouldn’t have moved away quickly from the crashing anchor. Checkout the video inside the article.
While getting off a ship, the pilot loses his grip when climbing down the ladder and falls onto the Pilot Boat. Read inside to know more about the accident.
Watch a ferry full of kids ramming into a dock in Urk, The Netherlands. Luckily, no one was injured.
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