Water mist fire fighting system has been discussed in this article and we will study that in detail. As name suggest water mist system fights fire by cooling down the fire with the help of very fine water droplets also called hyper mist. On different ships, you have might have water mist or hyper mist. […]
Generator Protection Devices have been discussed in this article and they are as follows: ● Over Current Inverse Time Relay OCIR ● Over Current Instantaneous ● Negative Phase Sequence NPS ● Current Differential ● Earth Leakage Relay ● Under And Over Frequency ● Lock Out Trip ● Reverse Power Trip ● Over or Under Voltage […]
Ahoy ‘Ahoy, Port Chaplain coming on board’. This is how I mostly start my ship visit. And yes, mostly I am welcomed on board. But there are also times when my seafarers are busy, with bunkering, or they are doing other work. But their business is for me no problem. Why? Because ‘I know with a smile and a handshake […]
A RO RO merchant ship named AL FAYROUZ had fire onboard and they sent a distress signal using Inmarset.The signal was picked by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center, France. Then it was informed to the Saudi Arabian MRCC for further actions. As per the latest report, all the crew onboard were saved from the […]
Oil spill incident was reported from a Mediterranean Shipping Company container ship named as MSC SANDRA. Oil spill incident happened when ship was taking bunker in port SINES-Portual. As per the latest reports, around 3 tons of fuel oil spilled overboard during the bunker operations. The reason for the spill is still unknown. The preventive […]
This article deals in the safety precautions that needs to be taken while doing the lifting operations on ship. Unlike land, ship is a total different place to work with. It’s a floating body and needs a more precautions for lifting work as compared to land. Here we have discussed some of the measures that […]
In an unfortunate incident, one of the ultra large container ship Maersk Honam had a major fire incident Maersk Honam Fire Incident Ship was travelling from Singapore to Suez. Ship is 2017 built and fire reported in one of the holds at 15:20 GMT around 900nm southeast of Salalah Oman. 27 Crew were there on […]