It often takes a tragedy to bring issues into focus. Last year, a devastating fire broke out aboard the passenger dive boat Conception off California’s Santa Cruz Island. Read More
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The National Transportation Safety Board has released a marine accident brief detailing its investigation into the May 16, 2019, multi-vessel collision involving the tanker American Liberty on the Lower… Read More
The probable cause of the contact of the William C with the Rock Island Railroad Bridge protection cell on January 1, 2020, was the pilot’s inability to correct… Read More
The failure of a weld ultimately led to a barge breaking loose from its mooring and heavily damaging a pier in November of last year, the National Transportation Safety… Read More
The National Safety Transportation Board announced October 14 that it has upgraded the search function to its database of incident cases. But those searching for marine investigations may have… Read More
An October 13 report by the National Transportation Safety Board on a barge explosion last November highlights the importance of companies providing full and detailed instructions to their employees… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is conducting an investigation into an August 21 fire aboard the cutterhead dredge Waymon L. Boyd, has released a preliminary report on… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently released its marine accident brief detailing the investigation into the June 8, 2019, collision between the bulk cargo ship Century Queen and… Read More
At about 1:40 a.m. October 12, 2018, the mv. Kristin Alexis was headed upriver on the Lower Mississippi River near St. James Parish, La., pushing the crane barge Mr. Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a report on one of the most dramatic incidents of the floods of 2019, when two barges broke loose and careened down… Read More
