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Items Tagged with 'maritime safety'

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ocean

How success sank a ship, endangered the crew

September 20, 2018
A too-large catch was behind the sinking of a commercial fishing vessel last year off the coast of Virginia, according to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report. There were no injuries or fatalities among the crew, but the five people on board the Langley Douglas had to be rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.
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NTSB: Poor decisions, lax safety oversight led to sinking

December 14, 2017
The deadliest shipping disaster involving a U.S.-flagged vessel in more than 30 years was caused by a captain’s failure to avoid sailing into a hurricane despite numerous opportunities to route a course away from hazardous weather, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced during a public meeting Tuesday. The cargo vessel S.S. El Faro sank Oct. 1, 2015, in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Joaquin, taking the lives of all 33 aboard.
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NTSB to reveal cause of fatal cargo ship sinking

September 13, 2017
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) plans to meet Dec. 12, 2017, in Washington to determine the probable cause of the October 2015 sinking of the cargo ship El Faro in the Atlantic Ocean.
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NTSB: Docking errors led to cruise ship collision

March 7, 2017
Too much speed and too steep of an angle of approach resulted in the May 8, 2016, collision involving the cruise ship Carnival Pride in which more than $2 million in property damage occurred, according to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) marine accident brief released today.
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whistleblower

OSHA issues final rule protecting seamen from retaliation

September 20, 2016
OSHA has published a final rule at that establishes procedures and time frames for handling retaliation complaints under the Seaman's Protection Act (SPA). The Act protects seamen from retaliation for engaging in certain protected activity, such as providing information to the government about violations of maritime safety laws or regulations.
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“Abandon ship”

Black box from sunken ship reveals crew’s last minutes
August 25, 2016
Ten minutes after the master of the cargo ship El Faro ordered his crew to abandon ship, the audio recording of the doomed ship’s final hours went silent.
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ocean

NTSB releases “Safer Seas Digest 2015”

August 22, 2016
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its annual compendium of marine accidents and the lessons learned from them.
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ocean

See video of NTSB's mission to sunken ship

August 15, 2016
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Friday released video and photos of the retrieval and preliminary inspection of El Faro’s voyage data recorder.
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ocean

NTSB retrieves El Faro Voyage Data Recorder

August 9, 2016
The doomed cargo ship that sank in the Bahamas last year has finally yielded up a clue that could help investigators determine exactly how it met its end, taking the lives of its 33 crew members with it.
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NTSB: Poor communication led to 2015 Houston Ship Channel accident

June 9, 2016
The probable cause of the 2015 collision of the Conti Peridot and the Carla Maersk in the Houston Ship Channel was the inability of the pilot on the Conti Peridot to respond appropriately to hydrodynamic forces after meeting another vessel during restricted visibility, and his lack of communication with other vessels about this handling difficulty controlling his vessel, said the National Transportation Safety Board.
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