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Jim Wilson
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May 24, 2010 12:06 PM
- Questions on why the Costa Concordia capsized
- THE investigation into the causes of the Costa Concordia casualty will eventually move away from the master’s culpability of recklessness and focus on why the modern cruise ship managed to capsize.
- Casualty briefs 2 February 2012
- Maritime
- Evolution of piracy will be closely watched in 2012
- LAST year was without doubt a formative year for Somali piracy.
- Casualty briefs 26 January 2012
- Maritime
- Casualty briefs 19 January 2012
- Electrical disruption responsible for Queen Mary 2 blackout
- AN ELECTRICAL explosion which left Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 (QM2) cruiseship temporarily without power with 3823 people on board was due to a fault in the aft harmonic filter room, the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) reports.
- Casualty briefs 12 January 2012
- Maritime
- Swanland master blames loading for fatal casualty
- UNSAFE loading techniques may have contributed to the November loss of he 1977-built, 3137 dwt Swanland in the Irish Sea, which claimed the lives of six seafarers, the vessel’s former master has told a BBC radio documentary.
- Swanland master blames loading for fatal casualty
- UNSAFE loading techniques may have contributed to the November loss of he 1977-built, 3137 dwt Swanland in the Irish Sea, which claimed the lives of six seafarers, the vessel’s former master has told a BBC radio documentary.
- Casualty briefs 5 January 2012
- Maritime
- Casualty briefs 5 January 2012
- Maritime
- Salvage master slams risk averse industry
- THE FOREMOST salvage master of his generation has warned of a catastrophe facing shipping and the marine environment if the industry he helped to shape over 40 years becomes too corporatised.
- Casualty briefs 22 December 2011
- Maritime
- Shipboard citadels split industry but save lives
- THE USE of shipboard citadels has been likened to a master “hiding under a duvet” despite citadels saving crews in 87% of recent successful pirate boardings, according to data from Dryad Maritime Intelligence Services.
- Casualty briefs 15 December 2011
- Maritime
- Bulker released after seven-month saga
- ITALIAN bulk carrier Rosalia D’Amato has been released by Somalia pirates after seven months in captivity.
- Regulation will not stop influx of private guards
- ANY new stringent regulation will not hamper the continual and rapid growth of the private maritime security sector (PMSC) and it is anticipated that many companies will still operate outside of the law.
- Casualty briefs 8 December 2011
- Maritime
- Greater efforts needed to counter piracy long term
- UK PRIME minister David Cameron’s announcement that the UK will now support the deployment of armed guards on board UK-flagged merchant vessels will only affect around 100-150 ships in practice.
- Casualty briefs 1 December 2011
- Maritime
