Lessons learned from an incident related to a disposable Vape

Crankcase failure leads to two small fires but good practice in place prevented any secondary damage.  

Fatality caused by the explosion of a corroded fire extinguisher

Sharing of lessons learned in relation to exposed electrical cables.

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

In the early hours of the morning during a period of adverse weather the fire alarm in the vessel battery locker was activated. The crew mustered and fire team assembled, upon investigation it was discovered that there was

Whilst returning to port from offshore one of our member’s vessels suffered a fire in her engine room. The crew were alerted when 3 sensors on the fire detection system activated setting off the fire alarm and the

It has been reported by one of our members that they had been subject to a small fire in a crew member’s cabin. The crew member who was not in his cabin at the time had left a

Recently an MSF member had an incident involving a microwave on one of their vessels that had the potential to be a lot more severe than it actually was.

A vessel recently suffered a failure of a deck floodlight capacitor when an electrical ballast unit caught fire resulting in the triggering of the Fire Detection System. The ships fire party mustered, the cause of the activation was