Published on 19 Jun 2023
Published on 19 Jun 2023
Our ship was transiting heavy monsoonal seas on her route from Colombo to Salalah when she had water ingress into the forward bosun store. She subsequently suffered a black out and equipment damage due to the water ingress.
- Preparing for heavy weather / securing arrangements not effective.
- Testing of bilge alarms not effective / defective audible alarms of the alarm control system not identified.
- Safety inspections not effective / safety critical deficiencies not identified and reported.
- Superintendent inspections.
- Competency assessment.
- Emergency response.
- Ship was taken over in sub-standard condition and funding / budget was not sufficient.
- Owners 2022 OPEX, was approved in May 2022, while yearly budgets are normally approved at the end of a year. Until May 2022 funding of monthly advances were partially utilized to cover additional expenditure (2021 OPEX overruns) for repair and upgrading of safety related items and certain items to ensure that the vessel remained operational.
- Promoting and encouraging speaking up:
- SMS compliance.
- Risk assessment.
- Effective internal inspections and reporting.
- Heavy weather precautions.
- Alarm testing and follow-up.
- Emergency preparedness and response.
- Start-up after blackout condition and the same is prominently posted.
- Emergency bilge operations in the forecastle.
- Refueling the emergency generator.
- Mandatory office review by changing the setting in PAL.
- Adding weather tight integrity verifications of securing hatches, spurling pipes, other deck openings and internal communications.
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