Tag: collision

The US Navy released two videos showing that while operating in the Philippine Sean a Russian destroyer (Udaloy I DD 572) made an unsafe maneuver against USS Chancellorsville (CG-62), closing to ~50-100 feet. The incident took place at approximately 11:45 am on June 7, 2019.

On 7 June, the supply vessel PSV Sjøborg collided into the Statfjord A platform in connection with loading operations. Statfjord A is currently in a scheduled production stop, and there was no production on the platform when the incident took place. There were a total of 276 people on board Statfjord A when the collision happened, but there are no injuries on board the platform.

In light of the Danube fatal collision incident, Hungarian prosecutors said on Thursday, May 30, that the captain of a cruise liner involved in the fatal collision had captained a boat that was in an accident in the Netherlands in April. 

At least 13 people are confirmed dead after the fatal collision of two tourist boats on the Danube River, Budapest, on the evening hours of 29th May. Divers discovered the 13th body in the wreckage of one of the pleasure boats, Wednesday. Another 15 people remain missing, while seven were rescued. 

Following the crash of the giant cruise ship 'MSC Opera' at the dock on the Giudecca Canal in Venice earlier this week, Mike Travis, Principal Inspector of the UK MAIB explained how technology can help accident investigators determine what happened.

An MSC cruise ship crashed into a pier and a tourist river boat on a busy canal in Venice, on June 2. According to local media, four people were injured due to the collision, with MSC explaining that the ship experienced mechanical problems.

After two tourist vessel collided in Danube river, Budapest, which led to seven dead and 21 missing, the Hungarian police authorities arrested the captain of the vessel that caused the collision. Reuters reports that flood waters made it impossible for the rescuers to reach the submerged boat on Saturday, June 1. The factors that caused the accident remain unclear, for the time being. 

In its newly Safety Digest, UK MAIB discusses of a high-speed passenger ferry which escaped serious injury when the ferry struck a landing pontoon at speed, while it had 110 passengers and four crew on board.

Seven people have died and 21 are missing due to a collision between a cruise ship and a tour boat on the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. The 64-year-old Ukrainian captain of the cruise vessel has been detained by police.

Two crewmembers are confirmed dead and two more crew members are unaccounted for, after two Japanese cargo ships collided off the coast of Chiba Prefecture, east Japan, in the early morning hours of Sunday. All four crew members aboard the Sumiho Maru, based in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, were safe.