Lifesaving Incidents

On February 1st, the passenger ferry MV Rabaul Queen sank in heavy seas off Papua Guinea.  The search for survivors continues. Papua New Guinea’s

A Papua-New Guinea (PNG) flagged passenger ship/RoRo sunk yesterday in heavy seas off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea.  350 people are reported to have

Yesterday marked 32 years since the sinking of Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn. Twenty-three of the Blackthorn’s 50 crewmembers lost their lives during

Salvors working on the stricken M/V Rena are focusing primarily on removing containers from the bow section ahead of heavy weather that is forecasted over the

– by Captain Bill Doherty, Director of Maritime Relations, Nexus Consulting  Critical Incident Management Systems (CIMS) are only as good at the

Serious, and unambiguous statements by Dr Valeria Montesarchio from the Court of Grosseto.  The following are a few highlights, the entire transcript is

Chevron Nigeria reports they have suspended their search for the 2 missing rig workers from the jack up rig that blew out and caught fire on 16 January.  It

Wall Street Journal News Radio host Michael Castner discusses the actions of the Costa Concordia’s Captain, Francesco Schettino, with Rob

Over the past three days I’ve heard a lot of back and forth about the captain of the Costa Concordia and his actions during the evacuation of his ship

A senior United Nations official today called for a thorough investigation into the incident involving the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off

[Disclaimer] the following story was reportedly written by the GSM of the Concordia but is unverified as of Monday morning.  If true, it goes against what has

ROME (Dow Jones)–The chief executive of Carnival Corp.’s (CCL) Costa Crociere SpA blamed the captain of the shipwrecked Concordia

There is clearly a lot of speculation about what happened on board the Costa Concordia that led to her tragic demise.  Was it a navigational error?  Did the

Rescue operations continued on Sunday inside the cruise ship that ran aground off the shore of Tuscany late Friday, triggering a confused evacuation of

**UPDATE 15 Jan 12**: The Costa Concordia does not have azimuthing “pod-type” thrusters. Many modern cruise ships are unique from other ships such

Upon departure from the port of a Giglio, an island off the northwestern coast of Italy, the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef, tearing a 50 meter-long

UPDATE: The captain of the cruise ship COSTA CONCORDIA has been arrested by Italian police as an investigation into Friday night’s grounding is

Update 2: 13 Jan 2012 A United States Airforce (USAF) C-130 Hercules aircraft departed McMurdo station at 12.35pm today (NZDT) with the 7 injured crew on

The stern section of the stricken M/V Rena has slipped off the Astrolabe Reef and has sank.  Maritime New Zealand gave the update just moments ago, saying

UPDATE: Monday, 6pm EST: The sea has claimed the stern section of the stricken M/V Rena Tuesday morning (local time).  We’ve started a new post with