The Coast Guard is asking operators of small passenger vessels to voluntarily reduce the number of people they carry to reflect the fact that the average weight of Americans has increased. The Coast Guard is recommending that operators of small…
The Dutch salvage company Smit is working to refloat the 72,000-gt cruise ship Pride of America, after the vessel sank at its dock at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven GmbH shipyard in Germany on Jan. 14. Pride of America rests on its…
A steam-boiler explosion aboard the 1,035-foot SS Norway claimed eight lives and injured 19 on May 25. The incident occurred while the ship was docked in the Port of Miami after having just completed a weeklong Caribbean cruise. There were…
Inattention to an electronic chart system and a breakdown of communications on the bridge contributed to the grounding of the containership ANL Excellence in Moreton Bay off the coast of Queensland in 2002, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has concluded.…
A barge being towed by a tug spilled an estimated 928 barrels of No. 6 fuel oil in Massachusetts' Buzzards Bay on April 27. The tug Evening Tide was headed north with the 376-foot barge Bouchard-120 on a 1,000-foot towline…
A tug pushing three asphalt barges struck and killed a 73-year-old fisherman in a 14-foot outboard motorboat on the Tennessee River near Mile 102. The accident occurred at 0930 on June 5 as Wayne Day and a companion, Jimmy Bratcher,…
The captain of a 38-foot charter fishing boat that sank off the Oregon coast in September 2005 has been charged in federal court with seaman's manslaughter. Three people died after the boat swamped and then sank in heavy seas near…
The master of Safari Spirit, the small cruise vessel that ran aground and sank in British Columbia's Kisameet Bay in May 2003, failed to use all available means to determine the vessel's position accurately, the National Transportation Safety Board has…
Coast Guard headquarters in Washington has concluded that several factors, including strong currents, lack of horsepower and poor tow configuration, contributed to the fatal allision between the towboat Brown Water V and the Queen Isabella Causeway in Texas in September…
A U.S.-flagged containership, Sea-Land Express, dragged anchor and grounded on a beach near Cape Town, South Africa, despite warnings from Cape Town Port Control that it was in trouble, according to a South African official. Sea-Land Express, a 32,926-dwt containership…
The boatswain of a Ukrainian bulk carrier was killed when the cargo of gypsum rock shifted in the ship's hold, burying him alive. MV Pioneer was unloading at the Sprague Energy Terminal in Newington, N.H., on Aug. 30, when the…
Failure to observe a well-marked aid to navigation resulted in the grounding of an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry, the 235-foot LeConte, on May 10. The ferry was on a 76-mile route between Angoon and Sitka in southeast Alaska when…
