Marine Safety - Accident Investigation

The role of the “UK Government’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (http://www.maib.gov.uk/) and its accident investigation process”.

Speaker

D Harwood MAIB

I am an Inspector of Marine Accidents and I served in the Merchant Navy as an engineer officer with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary for 24 years.

To help explain our powers and procedures, I will use video/audio clips of extracts from cases that I have worked on myself over the previous 5 years .

Investigations that I have led in my five years as an inspector include:
 
2012     High speed passenger craft Moon Clipper – Contact with London City Pier on the River Thames, resulting in injuries to 14 passengers and 2 crew.

Container feeder vessel Clonlee - Electrical blackout and subsequent grounding on the River Tyne

2011    RO-Ro ferry Oscar Wilde - Machinery space fire

2010    Container vessel Ever Elite - Uncontrolled descent of an accommodation ladder while the vessel was in San Francisco Bay, resulting in one fatality

2009    High speed craft Stena Voyager - The shift and loss overboard of an articulated road tanker in Loch Ryan

Passenger RIB Celtic Pioneer – Spinal injury to a passenger during thrill ride in the Bristol Channel

2008    Fishing vessels Lady Hamilton of Helford and Blithe Spirit - Collision in Falmouth Bay, resulting in foundering of Lady Hamilton of Helford

Privately owned RIB Partner 1 - Console detachment in Studland Bay, Poole

Army Cadet Rigid Raider - Capsize of Army Cadet Force Rigid Raiding Craft in Loch Carnan, South Uist resulting in one fatality