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Bridge resource management gone wrong: VLCC hits buoy and almost collides with anchored ship

Bridge resource management gone wrong: VLCC hits buoy and almost collides with anchored ship

by Mariska Buitendijk | Oct 31, 2022 | Maritime accidents, Navigation, News, Shipping, SWZ|Maritime

Effective bridge resource management (BRM) should be a working culture, a safety habit that is embraced and practiced by all navigating officers, says The Nautical Institute. Its latest Mars report provides an example of how not to do it. In it, a VLCC collided with a...
Water taxi and ferry that collided in Wadden Sea were sailing too fast

Water taxi and ferry that collided in Wadden Sea were sailing too fast

by Mariska Buitendijk | Oct 27, 2022 | Maritime accidents, News, Passenger ships, Shipping

Both the water taxi Stormloper and the fast ferry Tiger were sailing too fast when they collided on 21 October in the Dutch Wadden Sea. This has become clear from freely available sailing data. The accident resulted in two deaths and two people are still missing. Just...
How an offshore supply vessel collided twice in 45 minutes

How an offshore supply vessel collided twice in 45 minutes

by Mariska Buitendijk | Oct 26, 2022 | Grounding, Maritime accidents, Navigation, News, Shipping

Too many assumptions and too little communication can lead to bad outcomes. That is what The Nautical Institute has to say about an accident in which an offshore supply vessel collided with a Coast Guard buoy tender twice in 45 minutes. The incident is covered in the...
Water taxi and ferry that collided in Wadden Sea were sailing too fast

Two dead and two missing after water taxi and ferry collide near Terschelling

by Mariska Buitendijk | Oct 24, 2022 | Maritime accidents, News, Passenger ships, Salvage, Shipping

The Netherlands Coast Guard launched a major search and rescue operation after the water taxi Stormloper and ferry Tiger collided on 21 October in the Dutch Wadden Sea. Two people were killed in the collision. Two others, including a 12-year-old child, are still...
How sleep inertia contributed to a tug with barges hitting a lock gate

How sleep inertia contributed to a tug with barges hitting a lock gate

by Mariska Buitendijk | Oct 12, 2022 | Inland navigation, Maritime accidents, Navigation, News, Shipping, SWZ|Maritime

Sleep inertia is a silent companion to fatigue and mariners would be well served to be aware of its existence. The Nautical Institute gives this warning in its latest Mars Report, in which a tug pushing two barges hit a lock gate. The master suffered from sleep...
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