Why Most Ship Casualties Are Mainly Of Human Error And What Are The Human Errors ?

Sea transportation has been the major means of transporting cargos and passenger international. Transporting cargos via sea has been found to be most safest way for havey cargos like Chemical, Oil, bulk cargos and others.

Mean while, we can still find some degrees of risk factors facing the sea transportation, and these risks are mainly casue by  operators error. On this article, we will observe some example, list of ship operators error and other factors which can result to a big disaster to the ship operation.

As recorded, about 75-96% of marine accidents are caused by human errors and they occurs in these categories of operations and forms ;

• 84-88% mostly tanker accidents

• 79%  towing vessel grounding

• 89-96%  collisions

• 75%  Allison's

•75% fires and explosions

Ship Collision

When we talk about human errors, what do we mean?  Human error are mostly described as being one of the followings:

• Improperly performed action

• Incorrect decision

• Improper lack of action

• Incompetent of ones duty

Probably the better way to explain human error is to provide examples from one real marine casualty's ; "Collision of Argentine freighter M/V Santa Cruz II and U.S. Coast Guard cutter Cuyahoga in Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Potomac River, Maryland, October 20, 1978." 

That collision was an example of human error. According the witness "The cause of the casualty was that the commanding officer of the USCGC CUYAHOGA failed to properly identify the navigation lights displayed by the M/V SANTA CRUZ II. As a result he did not comprehend that the vessels were in a meeting situation and altered the CUYAHOGA's course to port taking his vessel into the path of the SANTA CRUZ II."

Four Main functions of valves , Names, category and types.

Onboard ship valves are widely use for various purposes. These valves are mostly designed in such a way that it saver it functions as listed below:

TYPES OF VALVES

1. Regulation
2. Isolation
3. specialized purpose
4. Non-Return

Following the above listed, these functions helps you to categorize there types by names. below are the categories of valves, following it functions;

1. Regulation : valves which can be found on this category of functions are:

• Piston valves
• Globe valves
• Needle valves
• Control valves
• diaphragm valves
• Butterfly valves
• Pinch valves

2. Isolation: as the name sounds, the valves that can be found on this category of functions are :

• Piston valves
• Gate valves
• Ball valves
• diaphragm valves
• Plug valves
• Butterfly valves
• Pinch valves

3. Specialized purpose : valves which can be found on this category of functions are:

• Float Valves
• Knife gate valves
• Line blind valves

54-year old Captain Got missing while vessel underway

An unconfirmed information, A container ship MSC GIANNINA heading from Gioia Tauro to Genoa, Italy reported her Captain missing  the information gathered from the fleet website said most probably on Oct 19 in vicinity 13 53N 013 43E, Tyrrhenian sea,

What Is The Full Meaning Of SBM And It Purpose?

The Meaning Of SBM

SBM simply means "Single Buoy Mooring"
This is a loading and Discharging offshore buoy, which serves as a mooring point and interconnect for tankers loading or discharging of gas or liquid products. 

They are meant to handle any size tanker ship, including VLCC (very large crude carriers) where no other alternative facilities are available.

Purpose And Benefits Of SBM/SPM

Six Possible Reasons Why Seafarers May Fall Overboard

Here are six mostly reasons why seafarers go overboard at the sea, why underway or at anchorage:

Rescue boat drill

✓Being under the influence of alcohol or drugs

✓Working in low visibility or in rough sea conditions

✓Accidents such as loosing footing on deck.

Engine Room Resource Management Covers these Ten Main Points.

Engine control room

The main objective of resource management relate to the non-technical skills associated with the social interaction between team members, situation awareness and the decision-making. This is a high fidelity, complex, simulated working environment.

This course has been designed to meet the requirements of STCW Regulation I/12, Sections A-III/1 & 2 and A & B-VIII/2.

This course is intended for engineering officers at both the management and operational level. Program can be tailored to specific shipping company operations. this course covers;