Safety Flash
Damage and engine room flooding following contact by tugboat
Damage and engine room flooding following contact by tugboat
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 10/20
- Human FactorsMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Human factorsVessel collisionVessel flooding and foundering
- Mooring operationsNavigation
- Pumps
- Emergency responseIndependent audit and verificationOperational supervisionSafety communication
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A tug lost manoeuvrability during berthing and struck a vessel, tearing its hull and flooding the engine room. Emergency bilge suction using a ballast pump controlled the flooding. The flash examines excessive vessel speed, rough weather, communication and supervision failures, and stresses the master’s authority and familiarity with damage-control arrangements.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Vessel collision; ship collision; marine allision.
Classifications: Vessel flooding and foundering; water ingress.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Navigation; vessel navigation; passage planning.
Classifications: Pumps.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Independent audit and verification.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
A vessel suffered damage to the hull and engine room flooding due to contact with a tugboat during berthing
IMCA SF 10/20. Themes: human factors, marine operations, vessel and mooring.