I have to post this reply anonymously, as I had the misfortune to work for the ship manager and had to perform emergency ISM triage on the guilty office. ShipX was working cargo in a European port, so the crew decided to get the fire-fighting equipment serviced. Unfortunately, they sent ALL the BA sets ashore at the same time. A fire broke out in the engineroom that night, the crew couldn't get in without BA so they fired off the CO2 system.

The Chief Engineer wasn't sure what the status of the fire was, and so went into the E/R – no BA – to have a look. Blind luck was with him, and he somehow survived while the fire was extinguished by the CO2 system. When the Flag State worked what had happened (after a couple of weeks of being drip-fed snippets of b/s), they unleashed their full fury on the office. The quick end to the story was a tough ISM audit and short-dated DOC. The Flag State would have been well within their rights to pull their DOC (and given Class who issued it a kick in the backside) but economic rationality prevailed and all was smoothed over.

ISM's a good start but stupidity will beat any system.

I have to post this reply anonymously, as I had the misfortune to work for the ship manager and had to perform emergency ISM triage on the guilty office. ShipX was working cargo in a European port, so the crew decided to get the fire-fighting equipment serviced. Unfortunately, they sent ALL the BA sets ashore at the same time. A fire broke out in the engineroom that night, the crew couldn't get in without BA so they fired off the CO2 system.

The Chief Engineer wasn't sure what the status of the fire was, and so went into the E/R – no BA – to have a look. Blind luck was with him, and he somehow survived while the fire was extinguished by the CO2 system. When the Flag State worked what had happened (after a couple of weeks of being drip-fed snippets of b/s), they unleashed their full fury on the office. The quick end to the story was a tough ISM audit and short-dated DOC. The Flag State would have been well within their rights to pull their DOC (and given Class who issued it a kick in the backside) but economic rationality prevailed and all was smoothed over.

ISM's a good start but stupidity will beat any system.

I have to post this reply anonymously, as I had the misfortune to work for the ship manager and had to perform emergency ISM triage on the guilty office. ShipX was working cargo in a European port, so the crew decided to get the fire-fighting equipment serviced. Unfortunately, they sent ALL the BA sets ashore at the same time. A fire broke out in the engineroom that night, the crew couldn't get in without BA so they fired off the CO2 system.

The Chief Engineer wasn't sure what the status of the fire was, and so went into the E/R – no BA – to have a look. Blind luck was with him, and he somehow survived while the fire was extinguished by the CO2 system. When the Flag State worked what had happened (after a couple of weeks of being drip-fed snippets of b/s), they unleashed their full fury on the office. The quick end to the story was a tough ISM audit and short-dated DOC. The Flag State would have been well within their rights to pull their DOC (and given Class who issued it a kick in the backside) but economic rationality prevailed and all was smoothed over.

ISM's a good start but stupidity will beat any system.

I have to post this reply anonymously, as I had the misfortune to work for the ship manager and had to perform emergency ISM triage on the guilty office. ShipX was working cargo in a European port, so the crew decided to get the fire-fighting equipment serviced. Unfortunately, they sent ALL the BA sets ashore at the same time. A fire broke out in the engineroom that night, the crew couldn't get in without BA so they fired off the CO2 system.

The Chief Engineer wasn't sure what the status of the fire was, and so went into the E/R – no BA – to have a look. Blind luck was with him, and he somehow survived while the fire was extinguished by the CO2 system. When the Flag State worked what had happened (after a couple of weeks of being drip-fed snippets of b/s), they unleashed their full fury on the office. The quick end to the story was a tough ISM audit and short-dated DOC. The Flag State would have been well within their rights to pull their DOC (and given Class who issued it a kick in the backside) but economic rationality prevailed and all was smoothed over.

ISM's a good start but stupidity will beat any system.