Missing General Cargo Ship over 25 years of age in Black Sea.
A General Cargo vessel, flag - foreign, GRT- 3009t, built in 1982, owned and managed by foreign shipping company completed loading of steel billets on 16.02. 2008 in one of the foreign ports in [...]
Marine Safety Investigation Report - Final Man overboard fatality from the research survey ship Geosounder, 25 August 2007
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At about 0310 on 25 August 2007, while the research ship Geosounder was about 185 miles northeast of Cairns, Australia, en route from New Zealand to Singapore, an off-duty integrated rating (IR) who was skylarking on deck while under the influence of alcohol fell overboard. The crew immediately threw lifebuoys into the water, stopped the [...]
2008 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea presented to Brazilian seafarer
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The 2008 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea has been presented to a Brazilian seafarer who saved fellow crew members from a dangerous fire on a ship.
Mr. Rodolpho Fonseca da Silva Rigueira, of the drill ship Noble Roger Eason, nominated by the Government of Brazil, for his decisive, selfless action to rescue six fellow [...]
Legal Hurdles in West Slow Pursuit of Pirates
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Somali pirates firing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades hijacked yet another ship in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, this time seizing a chemical tanker. A German military helicopter from a nearby warship arrived in time to pull three security guards out of the water, but not soon enough to prevent the hijacking of the [...]
Seafarers cry for help as piracy on high seas is growing
Mumbai, Oct 2 Earlier this week, an Indian vessel belonging to Mercator Lines, carrying a parcel of ATF from Kuwait, anchored off the coast of Somalia and stayed there in the high seas for two days. The reason: the crew of the vessel did not want to sail without adequate protection through the pirate-infested waters [...]
Ship capsizes off Macau; all 17 crew members missing
SEOUL: All 17 crewmen on a South Korean freighter are missing after their ship capsized off the Chinese territory of Macau on Wednesday, South Korea’s coastguard said.
“A Chinese rescue ship, backed by an airplane, is involved in a search operation but they have had no luck yet,” a spokesman said.
“The ship lost [...]
Indians on hijacked ship safe, heading for Somalia
Officials from the Directorate General of Shipping (DGS) on Wednesday said that the Japanese vessel MT Stolt Valor, that had been hijacked near the Gulf of Aden on Monday with 22 crew, including 18 Indians, on board, was safe.
Also, officials from the Mumbai-based recruitment agents, Ebony Ship Management, confirmed that contact with the missing [...]
Canada to launch search for missing explorer ships.
TORONTO: Canada said on Friday it will search for two fabled British explorer ships that disappeared in the Arctic more 160 years ago, fearing melting ice caused by global warming could entice others to find and plunder the underwater tombs.
Environment Minister John Baird announced the Parks Canada-led search for British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s [...]
Portland Ferry Passengers Safely Evacuated.
Ninety-six passengers were evacuated from a Portland-based ferry that ran aground about half a mile southeast of Basket Island, off the coast of Maine last week..
There were no reports of pollution or injuries to the 96 passengers and three crew aboard.
The Bay Mist refloated with the incoming tide around 3:15 a.m., and an inspection of [...]
Boat capsizes, 10 children dead.
New Delhi - At least 10 children drowned and 10 more missing when a boat capsized on Friday in a river in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, a news agency reported.
Police said the boat capsized in the Tons river in the Azamgarh district which is located 280km southeast of the state capital Lucknow, the [...]
