Safety warning after vertical chute evacuation drill results in loss of 1 life

This documents makes recommendations to shipping companies who have, or intend to have, vertical-chute marine evacuations and to manufacturers/authorising bodies of such systems.

• From: Marine Accident Investigation Branch
• Published: 23 January 2015

• Vessel type: Merchant vessel 100 gross tons or over
• Report type: Safety bulletin
• Date of occurrence: 9 October 2002

Safety Bulletin 1/2003

Safety-Bulletin-1-2003.pdf (81.69 kb)

Summary

Fatal accident during a marine evacuation system deployment drill from ro-ro passenger ferry P&OSL Aquitaine in Dover Harbour on 9 October 2002.

Published 23 January 2015