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Procedural flaws, fatigue cause undocking accident

Procedural flaws, fatigue cause undocking accident

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jan 8, 2025 | Maritime accidents, Navigation, News, Shipping, SWZ|Maritime

The cause of a tanker hitting a jetty and becoming stuck was ‘a near total collapse of bridge resource management (BRM)’. The Nautical Institute draws this conclusion in a new Mars Report, which describes the incident in detail. The Nautical Institute...
BRM failure while docking results in a costly bump

BRM failure while docking results in a costly bump

by Mariska Buitendijk | Oct 18, 2024 | Maritime accidents, Navigation, News, Shipping, SWZ|Maritime

Have the bridge team fully engaged with the people doing the manoeuvring, so errors are spotted in time. The Nautical Institute gives this advice in its latest Mars Report, which describes how a vessel touched bottom resulting in the vessel being off-hire for over two...
BRM failure contributes to shore contact

BRM failure contributes to shore contact

by Mariska Buitendijk | Oct 9, 2024 | Maritime accidents, News, Shipping, SWZ|Maritime

Don’t count on the tide to keep your vessel on the right track and challenge the person with the con when concerns arise. The Nautical Institute gives this warning in its latest Mars Report in which a vessel’s pilot misjudged the tide’s influence...
Poor BRM between pilot and bridge team leads to grounding

Poor BRM between pilot and bridge team leads to grounding

by Mariska Buitendijk | Oct 17, 2023 | Grounding, Maritime accidents, Navigation, News, Shipping, SWZ|Maritime

The “challenge” is a key principle of good bridge resource management (BRM). In The Nautical Institute’s latest Mars Report, a bulk carrier grounded because neither pilot nor bridge team applied this principle. The Nautical Institute gathers reports...
USCG: Lack of situational awareness and poor BRM caused Ever Forward grounding

USCG: Lack of situational awareness and poor BRM caused Ever Forward grounding

by Mariska Buitendijk | Dec 8, 2022 | Grounding, Maritime accidents, News, Salvage, Shipping

The US Coast Guard (USCG) completed its marine casualty investigation on 6 December into the grounding of the container ship Ever Forward on 13 March 2022. The incident’s causal factors were the pilot’s failure to maintain situational awareness and attention while...
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