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Brazil Awaits Triple 5 Lifeboat Hook Check

By On July 20, 2010

Brazil’s Maritime Casualty Investigation Department of the Brazilian Navy’s Directorate of Ports and Coasts is awaiting a report on a Triple 5 lifeboat release mechanism to complete its investigation into [...]

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Cowards On The Bridge

By On April 1, 2010

Cowardice is rarely an adjective that MAC has ever applied to seafarers. It is one that we do so now, for a particularly shameful breed of gutless and incompetent masters [...]

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Master Of The Alien Invasion – Captain First to be Charged Under US Anti-Invasive Species Law

By On July 17, 2009

Master Of The Alien Invasion Chief Officer Charles P. Posas, has scored a dubious first in legal history. He is the first person to be charged with a violation of [...]

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If Only Kudos Went Further Than Money – LL/NI Awards

By On April 3, 2008

Photo By OneEighteen Your car’s parked in the lot outside a roadside diner, well off the road, when a another vehicle pulling a trailer passes. As it passes the trailer [...]

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Tounges of Fire – MAC Podcast

By On January 14, 2008

Bob Couttie of Maritime Accident Casebook has a new and interesting podcast up on his site; The Case Of The Tongues Of Fire. Fire is the third biggest major ship [...]

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