Safety Flash
High potential incident: Fast rescue craft capsized
High potential incident: Fast rescue craft capsized
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 18/17
- Emergency ResponseLeadership and CultureMarine Operations
- DrowningLeadership and safety cultureLoss of vessel stabilityVessel collisionVessel flooding and foundering
- Marine operationsMooring operations
- HoseRescue craft
- Emergency responseOperating and work proceduresRisk assessmentStop-work authority
- Marine industry
- Marine watersVessel
Summary
A fast rescue craft capsized during a near-shore seismic survey after towed equipment snagged on the seabed and weather deteriorated. Four people entered the sea without injury. The flash discusses overridden stop-work intervention, loading limits and emergency arrangements, alongside two further small-boat incidents involving swell, collision and floating hoses.
Classifications: Drowning; man overboard; person overboard.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Loss of vessel stability; capsize; vessel stability.
Classifications: Vessel collision; ship collision; marine allision.
Classifications: Vessel flooding and foundering; water ingress.
Classifications: Marine operations; maritime operations.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Hose; flexible hose.
Classifications: Rescue craft; fast rescue craft; FRC; fast rescue boat; FRB.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Stop-work authority; stop work; stop-work intervention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Marine waters.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
Four people were thrown into the sea and work equipment damaged or lost when a fast rescue craft capsized while conducting a seismic survey.
IMCA SF 18/17. Themes: emergency response, leadership and culture, marine operations.