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

The Injured Party was opening the watertight door into the bow thruster room at the end of his shift. As he placed his hand on the operating handle, he placed his other hand on the watertight door framework

During cargo operations at an offshore location, a 20ft basket was discharged from aft on the main deck. Shortly afterwards bridge team were informed by the installation crew that a yellow metal plate was found trapped inside the

A quayside boatman recently reported concerns with a ‘monkey’s fist’ that had been thrown ashore by an attending vessel during the mooring process. Picture 2 below shows the condition of the ‘monkey’s fist’ when it was initially thrown

An Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) was asked to backload 650bbls of contaminated mud (Slops) from an offshore location into two designated mud tanks. As per industry practice, the Master requested up to date MSDS Information for the cargo

When preparing a heavy lift to be discharged from an offshore supply vessel to an offshore installation the vessel’s AB’s were carrying out final checks which included checks for any potential dropped objects, during these checks they discovered

During deck cargo operations at an offshore location, a hoisted 10ft container became snagged on the bridle of a backloaded tote tank. A ‘Stop Stop Stop’ was given over the Radio and the Crane Operator immediately stopped hoisting

During chain handling operations on an Anchor Handling Vessel deck; the vessel crew were preparing 76mm chain length for decanting operation onto a Semi‐Submersible MODU. While recovering the chain from the AHV locker the Stbd-Aft tugger wire was

The ‘strop and pin’ method of connecting a bulk hose to a PSV for bulk transfer operations offshore is now becoming the norm and is generally considered to be a safe and easy method of securing a bulk

A vessel recently experienced machinery failure which had significant potential to result in a far more serious incident. The vessel was standing by at location due to fog preventing operations. At 03:20 the high-level alarm on the forward