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Community service demanded in fatal Wadden Sea accident

Community service demanded in fatal Wadden Sea accident

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jul 10, 2025 | Maritime accidents, Navigation, News, Passenger ships, Shipping

The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) holds two captains responsible for a fatal accident in the Schuitengat channel on the Wadden Sea on 21 October 2022 that could have been prevented. The OM has therefore demanded a community service sentence of 180 hours and a...
ABS EV battery fire simulation models thermal runaway

ABS EV battery fire simulation models thermal runaway

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jul 9, 2025 | Digitalisation, Maritime accidents, Maritime research, News, Shipping

ABS has developed advanced simulation modelling of thermal runaway in lithium-ion battery fires, in a critical step forward in tackling one of maritime’s biggest emergent safety risks. The model, which has now been validated with Texas A&M University research,...
Loss of situational awareness leads to loss of tug

Loss of situational awareness leads to loss of tug

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jul 4, 2025 | Maritime accidents, Navigation, News, Shipping, SWZ|Maritime, Towage

Situational awareness is the critical factor for a navigator, warns The Nautical Institute in a new Mars Report. In this report, a tug was so busy breaking ice, that the crew did not notice they were sailing into shallow water at high speed. It led to the loss of the...
AI-driven MOB system wins British Safety Council Award

AI-driven MOB system wins British Safety Council Award

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jul 1, 2025 | Digitalisation, Maritime accidents, Maritime awards, News, Shipping

Edinburgh’s Zelim has won this year’s British Safety Council (BSC) Health and Safety Transformation Award for its AI-driven automatic man overboard (MOB) detection system, ZOE. ZOE uses machine learning and a proprietary dataset of over 7 million maritime images to...
Burning plastic on deck causes fatality

Burning plastic on deck causes fatality

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 27, 2025 | Maritime accidents, News, Shipping, SWZ|Maritime

Burning shipboard plastic resulted in an explosion and a fatality on board a ship. The incident is described in a new Nautical Institute Mars Report. The Nautical Institute gathers reports of maritime accidents and near-misses. It then publishes these so-called Mars...
Fire hose cabinet on ship in poor state

Fire hose cabinet on ship in poor state

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 25, 2025 | Classification/inspection, Maritime accidents, News, Shipping, SWZ|Maritime

An officer was undertaking an inspection of the exterior fire hoses and their protective cabinets on a ship. The securing bracket of one cabinet was found to be badly corroded. The Nautical Institute gathers reports of maritime accidents and near-misses. It then...
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