The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released its report into the accidental lifeboat release that occurred on the Maltese-registered bulk Carrier Aquarosa last year. On March 1, 2014, Aquarosa ...
Draft guidelines to ensure release mechanisms for lifeboats are replaced with those complying with new, stricter safety standards have been agreed by IMO’s Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment ...
Draft guidelines to ensure release mechanisms for lifeboats are replaced with those complying with new, stricter safety standards have been agreed by IMO’s Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment ...
An improperly reset hook was to blame for the unintentional release of a freefall lifeboat from a bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean in 2014, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has determined. In ...
On 1 March 2014, the 190 m Maltese registered bulk carrier Aquarosa was on a voyage from Singapore to Kwinana, Western Australia, when its freefall lifeboat was inadvertently released during a routine ...
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How lifeboat release hooks were designed to save lives, and why they keep dropping boats during drills
The onload release hook was a clever engineering solution to a real problem, but adding safeguard after safeguard has made lifeboats more complicated and, in some ways, more dangerous. Here's how the ...
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