Safety Flash
Collision and near-miss caused by guard vessel
Collision and near-miss caused by guard vessel
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 19/14
- Control of WorkMarine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Vessel collision
- Diving operationsNavigation
- Safety communication
- Marine industryOffshore wind
- Vessel
Summary
Two incidents during inshore wind-farm diving involved guard-vessel management: a yacht narrowly missed an anchored diving vessel, and a guard vessel struck a diving platform. The flash describes inadequate lookout, missed communications and poor manoeuvring, suggests earlier intervention for the near miss, and records replacement of the guard vessel’s master following the collision.
Classifications: Vessel collision; ship collision; marine allision.
Classifications: Diving operations; diving; commercial diving.
Classifications: Navigation; vessel navigation; passage planning.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Offshore wind; offshore wind energy.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
Poor lookout, communication and vessel handling by a guard vessel led to a near collision and a collision during diving operations.
IMCA SF 19/14. Themes: control of work, marine operations, vessel and mooring.