TSB – Professional Mariner

20 Nov

TSB: Communication breakdown led to mooring injury on ferry

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty Newsferries, TSB

(QUEBEC CITY) — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has released its investigation report into the accident on board the ferry Atlantic Vision in Les Mechins, Quebec, in which a crewmember was injured. On March 23, 2023, while Atlantic Vision was unmooring, a mooring line wrapped around the vessel’s bow thruster propeller shaft, which was operating. The tension generated…

21 Aug

TSB cites ferry’s approach speed in Toronto dock strike

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty Newsferries, TSB

(TORONTO) — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has published its investigation report into a 2022 occurrence in Toronto, Ontario, where the passenger ferry Sam McBride struck the dock at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal. The investigation found safety deficiencies related to passenger safety management, which led the board to issue three recommendations to Transport Canada. On Aug. 20,…

06 Aug

TSB: Boxship fire, container loss raise safety flags

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty Newssafety, shipping, TSB

(RICHMOND HILL, Ontario) — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has issued two safety concerns following the 2021 loss of containers and fire on board the containership ZIM Kingston off Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The first safety concern relates to the risk of a phenomenon called parametric rolling, which led to the loss of containers, and the second concern…

10 Jun

PFD failure, safety system cited in death of mariner on pilot boat

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty NewsPilots, TSB

(DARTMOUTH, Nova Scotia) — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has released its investigation report of an incident where a crewmember on a pilot boat died after falling overboard near St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. On Sept. 26, 2022, during the hours of darkness, the pilot boat A.P.A. No. 18 set out with the master, a deck hand and…

02 May

Two die after tugboat sinks in storm on British Columbia coast

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty Newscasualty news, Ingenika, mariners, maritime casualties, maritime news, Miller 204, Transportation Safety Board, TSB

Two mariners died and a third suffered serious injuries after their tugboat sank in a remote British Columbia waterway during a strong winter storm. Capt. Troy Pearson and deck hands Charley Cragg and Zac Dolan were aboard the 36-foot Ingenika when it capsized in the Gardner Canal near Kemano while towing the 200-foot barge Miller 204. The tug’s emergency beacon activated…

22 Dec

TSB: Pilot’s errant orders to tugs led boxship to hit crane, berth

Professional Mariner StaffCasualty Newscrane, Ever Summit, Global Container Terminal, Port of Vancouver, Seaspan Falcon, Seaspan Hawk, TSB

The pilot guiding a containership into the Port of Vancouver inadvertently gave opposite instructions to the tugboats assisting the ship into the terminal, Canadian authorities said, and attempts to reverse the mistake came too late. The Panama-flagged Ever Summit struck a gantry crane and berth infrastructure on Jan. 28, 2019 at 0401 while docking at Global Container Terminals’ (GCT) Vanterm…