Safety Flash
MAIB: Unexploded ordnance – subsea explosion causes injury and damage
MAIB: Unexploded ordnance – subsea explosion causes injury and damage
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 07/22
- Emergency ResponseExplosionMarine Operations
- ExplosionVessel flooding and foundering
- Fishing operations
- Emergency responseEvacuation, escape and rescueFirst aid and medical provision
- Commercial fishing
- SubseaVessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises a seabed bomb explosion during crab-pot hauling by Galwad-Y-Mor in the North Sea. Five crew members suffered significant injuries, while the vessel sustained major damage and flooding. It highlights effective distress communication, evacuation, rescue and casualty triage, alongside the hull’s resistance to the blast.
Classifications: Explosion; explosive atmospheres.
Classifications: Vessel flooding and foundering; water ingress.
Classifications: Fishing operations.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: First aid and medical provision.
Classifications: Commercial fishing.
Classifications: Subsea; underwater worksite.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its Accident Report 1/2022 into a subsea explosion which damaged crab potting vessel Galwad-Y-Mor on 15 December 2020.
IMCA SF 07/22. Themes: emergency response, explosion, marine operations.