Safety Alerts

Rescue Craft & Equipment

Number: 26-02 Dated: 21/01/2026

Daughter Craft Grounding

Vessels daughter craft grounded during a transit into port

Number: 26-01 Dated: 16/01/2026

FRC Maintenance, High Potential Near Miss

Vessel crew members fell to sea during the change out of lifting slings on the vessels Fast Rescue Craft

Number: 23-15 Dated: 20/10/2023

Rescue Craft Fuel Isolation Valves

Rescue craft engines stopped in transit due to fuel starvation

Number: 21-01 Dated: 19/01/2021

Air Cylinder Failure in Lifeboat

Personnel injured as a result of failure of a compressed air cylinder in a Lifeboat.

Number: 20-10 Dated: 20/11/2020

FRC Capsize During Competence Assessment

Crew members fell into the sea during Fast Rescue Craft competence assessment

Number: 19-13 Dated: 02/12/2019

Launching Conditions for Fast Rescue Craft

Launch failure of Fast Rescue Craft as a result of incomplete planned maintenance task.

Number: 19-12 Dated: 18/11/2019

FRC Capsize During Launch

Capsizing of FRC during launching resulting in 3 crew-members entering the water

Number: 19-07 Dated: 05/06/2019

High Potential Near Miss – PSV Rescue Boat Davit Failure

Hi potential near miss during launching of a platform supply vessels rescue boat.

Number: 18-25 Dated: 20/11/2018

Anchor Brake Failure

A vessel experienced a potentially fatal near miss incident during a dry-docking period. As is normal practice in dry dock, the vessels anchors were ranged on the dock bottom for inspection and painting. With this complete, and the

Number: 18-04 Dated: 05/02/2018

Finger Injury During Recovery of Daughter Craft

Whilst the vessel was recovering the Daughter Craft after a Man Overboard exercise the Boatman took hold of the lifting ring, it was when he hooked the ring into the DC hook his left index finger became caught

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