Safety Flash
NOPSEMA – Fauna entanglement
NOPSEMA – Fauna entanglement
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 03/25
- Environment
- Environmental protection
- ROV operations
- Remotely operated vehicle
- Risk assessment
- ConstructionMarine industry
- Subsea
Summary
An IMCA safety flash relays a NOPSEMA alert about a shark trapped in a rope loop on an electrical flying lead and freed using an ROV knife without additional harm. It discusses marine fauna interactions with subsea equipment and measures to consider, including installation-aid removal, alternative designs and protective guards.
Classifications: Environmental protection; environmental safety; pollution prevention.
Classifications: ROV operations; remotely operated vehicle operations.
Classifications: Remotely operated vehicle; ROV; underwater robot.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Construction; construction industry.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Subsea; underwater worksite.
Summary
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority of Australia, NOPSEMA, has published an environmental alert relating to aquatic animals getting tangled up in subsea equipment.
IMCA SF 03/25. Themes: environment.