Safety Flash
Lifeboat brake release failure
Lifeboat brake release failure
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 02/99
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueInspection and MaintenanceMachinery and Equipment
- Mechanical failure
- Inspection and maintenance
- LifeboatWinch
- Operating and work procedures
Summary
A Watercraft lifeboat’s brake release cable snarled during lowering for annual maintenance and a test run, leaving the craft approximately two metres above water. Tangling during a previous falls rope change was suspected. Recommendations call for reviewing rope-change, brake-release and winch reeling-in procedures.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Lifeboat; survival craft.
Classifications: Winch; winches.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Summary
A lifeboat brake cable became unavailable during lowering after becoming tangled on its drum.
IMCA SF 02/99. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, inspection and maintenance, machinery and equipment.