Incident Review
135 articles
A yacht deckhand supported only by a fender hook fell during over-the-side cleaning. A permit existed, but none of 16 over-the-side permits…
CHIRP M2882: a yacht's preventer parted in a squall and the owner nearly went overboard at night without a lifejacket. Why authority,…
A deckhand with seven months' experience slipped on sand just after midnight and went overboard from a loaded barge. The American Club's…
A bosun and a pumpman tidying a mooring rope on the forward deck of a chemical tanker at anchor in a gale…
A lift tested without electrical isolation, a defective door release, and a stored call signal that fired the moment the doors closed.…
A bosun clipped to a gangway handrail, a wire that failed at 85.6 kN against a 97.1 kN minimum, a seized upper…
A fast-closing berthing approach in strong cross-winds holed the hull below the waterline. What happened next — shoring, pumping, and a deliberate…
A fuel return line with no check valve, a maintenance checklist marked complete without the underlying drawing review, and a partial CO2…
Neither crew member wore a PFD. The liferaft's painter was rigged to the wrong point. The EPIRB was slow. A dredge-recovery capsize…
A bilge alarm, an attempt to self-manage the emergency, and 28 minutes later a vessel on the seabed — without the Coast…
A single-handed skipper fell overboard while the vessel continued on autopilot, unmanned, until it ran aground. No one was aboard to notice.…
A crew transfer vessel collided with an uncrewed survey vessel in an offshore wind farm — a real-world test of how COLREGS…
A shell door's mechanical failure flooded one compartment. Open internal doors turned it into the loss of the whole vessel and 13…
A lone watchkeeper, a familiar route, and patchy fog down to a quarter mile — Solong collided with the anchored Stena Immaculate…
An electrical fault in a repurposed storage room met open fire doors, full-recirculation ventilation, and a crew who'd barely met each other…
A CO2 knockdown stopped the smoke and the crew believed the fire was out. Six hours later it re-ignited and spread across…
A chief mate died after falling 2.10m through an emergency escape hatch left open, flush with the deck, with no barrier or…
Belle Mer anchored near a known restricted area with inadequate chain scope, then dragged anchor into a subsea fibre-optic cable — because…
A naturally ventilated access space next to a scrap-metal cargo hold wasn't legally an 'enclosed' or 'connected' space under the rules in…
MV Wakashio grounded on a Mauritius reef on 25 July 2020 — six years ago today. The oil didn't start leaking for…
HMNZS Manawanui grounded on a reef off Samoa on 5 October 2024, caught fire, and sank the next morning. The Court of…
The bosun of the bulk carrier World Prize died rigging a pilot ladder off Sweden in October 2025. MAIB's investigation found no…
An offshore vessel struck a berthed container ship at the Port of Tyne on 29 July 2026, collapsing a gantry crane and…
BEAmer's investigation into the loss of the French trawler Excalibur, 16 April 2013 — a jammed warp, a 45-minute drift beam-on to…
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