A crewmember onboard a Member vessel is lucky to be alive after a recent incident involving gas cutting equipment where the work was thought to be routine and not properly planned. Approximately 35% of the crewmember's body sustained burns of partial to deep partial thickness, with some full thickness involvement to areas including the face, chest, back, arms and legs.
TB18 - Helicopter Ops
27/07/2005
The UK Club finds, through its large claims analysis, that the majority of personal injury claims are trip/fall incidents onboard and the major cause is input from the crews themselves. This bulletin highlights a recent incident onboard a Member's vessel, which has left a shipyard worker with severe injuries which he may not recover from.
The case described below highlights the need for shipowners to carry out proper risk assessments so that the master and his officers have guidance on how to devise and execute an appropriate plan with regard to the rescue of a person in the water when weather conditions do not permit the launching of a rescue craft.
424 - 07/05 - Orders under Pilotage
30/06/2005
The Club would like to highlight to Members a case where a ship ran aground on a mud/sand patch just south of Bradleys Head light in the middle of Sydney Harbour. When the ship came to an intended course alteration position in the harbour east of Bradleys Head, the pilot initiated the turn to starboard to round the headland. He firstly ordered 5° starboard rudder and then, when the ship did not respond quickly enough, he increased the order to starboard 10°. The rate of swing increased markedly and so the pilot ordered port 20° to slow the swing. The seaman on the wheel confirmed the order as port 20° and instead applied starboard 20° wheel. Before the consequences of this error could be corrected, the ship ran aground on a mud/sand patch just south of the light on the southern end of the headland.
Alert! 8 - Testing times for the crew
30/06/2005
Highlights Issue 12: 2005
17/06/2005