MAIB Investigation Report

Maersk Kendal published 16 March 2010

Key issues:

• Large UK registered container vessel ran aground while taking avoidance action in a busy shipping route
• Failure of bridge team work including lack of comprehensive passage planning, poor position monitoring and ineffective interaction, underpinned by complacency
• Report identifies the need for navigating officers to attend bridge team management training courses
• Proposed amendments to STCW requirements relating to bridge resource management to be adopted in June 2010

Wellservicer Published 20 January 2010

Key issues:

• Ship's rigger fatally injured while working on a modification to the vessel's diving bell recovery system
• Numerous safety management tools failed to recognise that the work was being conducted under a suspended load
• Following a thorough investigation, the operating company has implemented comprehensive actions to prevent a recurrence of such an accident. Consequently, no further recommendations are made as a result of MAIB's investigation
• MAIB flyer to the offshore support industry produced as a result of this accident