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

A recently qualified Third Engineer was assigned to a member’s vessel, his first trip as a qualified officer. After 5 days on board the 3/E took over watches in the engine room as the sole engine room watch

Over the last year one of our members has received a number of reports from their fleet of individuals boarding vessels via means other than the ships gangway.

Crewman had just completed recovery of the vessels daughter craft (DC) and had informed the Officers in the bridge that the DC had been recovered and stowed safely on-board. He left the bridge and was making his way

A vessel which had been attending an offshore installation had completed operations and had left the 500m zone. The deck crew decided to prepare mooring lines for arrival in port. One of the ABs was spooling a mooring

During recovery of anchors from the seabed a marine rep was injured after he got a 50 kg lump of mud/clay rolled onto his back as he was checking the Identification number of a shackle. The anchor was

During maintenance on deck the vessels AB’s discovered a roller on a winch that was stuck. They decided to try to loosen it by the use of the rail crane fitted on the vessel. When the crane driver

The issue of dropped objects and potential dropped objects has been a persistent problem within the Oil & Gas industry, 2016 has so far seen a rise in frequency of these reports.

The IBC Carrier pictured below was stowed behind a 10’ Half Height Container on board the PSV. As with the rest of the cargo, the door on the IBC Carrier had been closed and secured with a tie-wrap

During vessel loading, the shore-side foreman walked into the “Safe Haven” area of the vessel and stepped into an open manhole. The Foreman managed to catch himself and prevent a free-fall of 5 meters into the tank. Foreman