The entire 23-man crew of the listing 55,328-gross-ton vehicle carrier Cougar Ace was rescued on July 24. However, a member of a salvage team put aboard to conduct an inspection of the listing ship was killed in a fall. Marty Johnson, 40, a Titan employee from Issaquah, Wash., died after he slipped on the deck and hit his head. He…

A veteran Boston pilot fell to his death on Oct. 24 while climbing a pilot's ladder as he tried to board the 46,000-gt bulk carrier Baldock, moored at the Eastern Minerals Terminal at Chelsea, Mass. Robert G. Cordes, who had been a full pilot with the Boston Pilots Association since 1976, was climbing the rope ladder, with wooden steps, when…

Selendang Ayu, shown here on Dec. 19, 2004, broke into two sections soon after grounding on Dec. 8, 2004, off Unalaska Island. [Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard] The report from the National Transportation Safety Board on the grounding of the 39,775-gt bulk carrier Selendang Ayu off the Aleutian Island of Unalaska has concluded that the incident was caused by the shutting…