Incident Photo Of The Week – Lifeboat Bottle Explosion

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Lifeboat Air Bottle Explosion

The Marine Safety Forum gives us information on this lifeboat air bottle explosion:

A gas bottle exploded in a lifeboat of a vessel during the process of charging it up from the
Breathing Apparatus Air Compressor.

The Master of the 8 years-old vessel was in proximity of the lifeboat and he was very seriously
wounded. The bottle was quite old with different numbers/dates.

The photographs below speak for themselves. Unfortunately one person was injured – imagined
the results if this happened on the deck area with more people around.

Here is the full ALERT:

Read this doc on Scribd: msf-safety-flash-06 24

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  • Kennebec_Captain
    John - thanks, interesting reading - Bob Couttie says - "60 per cent of fatalities although just 16 per cent of accidents. " - Our lifeboat has to be lowered about 27 meters to the sea - 90 feet.
  • I asked a very similar question a few months back, Bob Couttie gave a good response:

    http://gcaptain.com/s/58430/
  • Kennebec_Captain
    I wonder what is killed-injured / rescued-saved ratio for lifeboats is. For every person killed or injured, how many people saved?
  • Visually inspect once every two years? F that. Inspect it the first time you have a lifeboat drill after joining a ship, unless you are the one who inspected it for it's two-year check. Officers are onboard for only a couple months and many never return to the same vessel, so it is easy to pass on problems to the releaving officer.

    Enclosed boats are coffin feeders.
  • bristlecone
    Look at the condition of the bottle. It's oxidized..probably has not been visualled or hydroe'd in years.

    Hydro every 5 years, visual every year.
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