Safety Flash
Only a centimetre – an emergency exit hatch blocked by mooring ropes
Only a centimetre – an emergency exit hatch blocked by mooring ropes
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 12/21
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueVessel and Mooring
- Inspection and maintenanceMooring operations
- Mooring fittingsMooring lines
- Evacuation, escape and rescue
- Marine industry
- Port and quaysideVessel
Summary
A daily inspection aboard a vessel alongside in port identified an engine-room escape hatch obstructed by mooring ropes on bitts. The flash attributes the condition to design oversight and earlier inspections failing to detect it, and calls for emergency exits to remain unobstructed, illuminated and maintained.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Mooring fittings; cleats; bollards.
Classifications: Mooring lines; mooring rope; mooring wire.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
On a vessel alongside in port, an emergency exit hatch was found to be blocked. A team making a daily inspection tour round the vessel found that they could not open an emergency exit hatch providing egress from the engine room to deck on the port side at the stern.
IMCA SF 12/21. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, vessel and mooring.