Safety Flash
Grounding and flooding of ferry – complacency
Grounding and flooding of ferry – complacency
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 13/15
- Human FactorsMarine Operations
- Human factorsVessel flooding and founderingVessel grounding
- Navigation
- Navigation and positioning equipment
- Alarm managementRisk assessment
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
This safety flash summarises MAIB findings on Commodore Clipper’s grounding and flooding in the Channel Islands in July 2014. It highlights inadequate passage planning, overlooked tidal, squat and chart-data factors, complacency in repetitive ferry operations, delayed damage checks, ineffective electronic navigation settings and alarms, and deficiencies in port-authority risk assessment.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Vessel flooding and foundering; water ingress.
Classifications: Vessel grounding.
Classifications: Navigation; vessel navigation; passage planning.
Classifications: Navigation and positioning equipment; ECDIS; AIS; chart plotters.
Classifications: Alarm management.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published a report into the grounding and flooding of the ro-ro (‘roll on roll off’) ferry Commodore Clipper in the Channel Islands in July 2014.
IMCA SF 13/15. Themes: human factors, marine operations.