Safety Flash
Listing of crew boat due to water ingress
Listing of crew boat due to water ingress
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 21/19
- Emergency ResponseInspection and MaintenanceStructural and Asset Integrity
- Loss of vessel stabilityStructural and asset integrityVessel flooding and foundering
- Inspection and maintenanceMarine operations
- Operator displays and control interfacesPumpsValve
- Alarm managementEmergency responseFunctional testing
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
A crew boat listed on its first voyage after dry-docking when water entered a starboard void space. The flash describes valve installation and gasket defects, a visual-only bilge alarm and a pump control in manual mode. It highlights absent post-drydock inspection and testing, and subsequent pre-sail checks.
Classifications: Loss of vessel stability; capsize; vessel stability.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Vessel flooding and foundering; water ingress.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Marine operations; maritime operations.
Classifications: Operator displays and control interfaces.
Classifications: Pumps.
Classifications: Valve; valves.
Classifications: Alarm management.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Functional testing; function test.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
Missing and poorly sealed valves allowed water into a crew boat void space, while bilge alarms and pumping controls failed.
IMCA SF 21/19. Themes: emergency response, inspection and maintenance, structural and asset integrity.