Maritime Accident Casebook

In this week’s SafeSpace Replay: A ship filled with wheat, a seafarer dead in his cabin, fumigants in the holds but the holds were sealed. Weren’t they? You might not smell trouble but you might see it coming, even if it wears a mask   Listen To The Podcast We’ll call him Danek, not his [...]

Three men lay more than a hundred yards from the thick torn metal that once covered the top forward ballast tank, they were dead. In the gathering darkness, in the roughening seas around the ship, the bodies of four other men were being carried away on the current, three of them never to be found. [...]

A young ambitious officer with the world of command ahead of him but he forgot the golden rule: when you go into a trap, make sure you've got two pairs of eyes.

Three men lay dead in the anchor locker. What they'd needed to live was all around them except in one place: the air they once breathed.

A busy cruise liner in port, a safety management audit, a class society survey and a second bosun who doesn’t notice that his job has changed. The Silent Assassin goes to work. Again. Listen To The Podcast We’ll call him Lito. He was 43 years old and a Filipino. On 11 June, 2008, he was [...]