Safety Flash
Fast rescue boat dropped 18 m into sea – injuring crew
Fast rescue boat dropped 18 m into sea – injuring crew
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 12/11
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueMarine Operations
- Personnel transfer
- Rescue craft
- Evacuation, escape and rescue
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises a 2010 medical evacuation incident aboard a natural gas tanker and points to an Australian Transport Safety Bureau report. During launching, the fast rescue boat fell 18 m into the water, injuring its crew and the person being evacuated.
Classifications: Personnel transfer; crew transfer.
Classifications: Rescue craft; fast rescue craft; FRC; fast rescue boat; FRB.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The Australian Transport Safety Board (ASTB) has published a report into a fast rescue boat incident on board a natural gas tanker.
IMCA SF 12/11. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, marine operations.