MARINE ACCIDENT REPORTS, 2000 - 2009

Report on Engineroom Fire On Board U.S. Small Passenger Vessel Queen of the West Columbia River, near Rufus, Oregon April 8, 2008, Marine Accident Report (NTSB/MAR-09/04), November 2009

Report on the investigation of the shift of an articulated road tanker on board the roll-on roll-off high-speed sea service cargo ferry, Stena Voyager, in Loch Ryan on 28 January 2009, October 2009.

Report on the investigation of the entrapment of an engine room fitter in a watertight door on board the ro-ro passenger ship Eurovoyager approaching Ramsgate, UK on 3 November 2008, UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch, July 2009

Report on the investigation of heavy weather encountered by the cruise ship Pacific Sun 200 miles north north east of North Cape, New Zealand on 30 July 2008 resulting in injuries to 77 passengers and crew, UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch, June 2009

Report of Investigation in the Matter of Sinking of Passenger Vessel EXPLORER 23 November 2007 in the Banfield Strait near South Shetland Islands, Bureau of Maritime Affairs, Republic of Liberia, Monrovia, 26 March 2009.

Report on the investigation of into the grounding of Pride of Canterbury, “The Downs” – off Deal, Kent 31 January 2008, UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch, January 2009

Report on the investigation of a close quarter investigation between Costa Atlantica and Grand Neptune in the Dover Strait on 15 May 2008, UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch, November 2008

Completed Preliminary Examination Summary: Queen Victoria in Contact with Pier at Valetta Harbour, Malta, July 2008

Report on the investigation of the fatal accident to person on board Thomson Celebration Tender 15 at anchor - St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands 26 September 2006.  UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch Report No 11/2007, June 2007

Report of the investigation of the fire onboard Star Princess off Jamaica 23 March 2006.  UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch Report No 28/2006, October 2006

Report of the investigation of the grounding of the passenger vessel Waverley, South of Sanda Island, West Coast of Scotland, 20 June 2004.  UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch Report No 1/2005, January 2005.

Independent investigation into the grounding of the Bahamas registered passenger ship Astor in Platypus Channel, Townsville, Queensland, 26 February 2004.  Australian Transport Safety Report No. 200

Marine Accident Brief: Engineroom Fire on the U.S. Passenger Vessel Columbia in Wrangell Narrows, Near Wrangell, Alaska, on May 28, 2003, NTSB Report Number: MAB-04-02, adopted on 4/19/2004

Grounding and sinking of U.S. Passenger Vessel Safari Spirit Kisameet Bay off Fisher Channel, about 20 miles southeast of the towns of Bella Bella and Shearwater, Denny Island, British Columbia, Canada on May 8, 2003

Report of the Escape of Steam and Hot Water on Board QE2 in the mid Atlantic Resulting in one Fatality on 23 June 2002

Report of Investigation into Flooding of Aft Engine Room of Passenger Ship Queen Elizabeth 2, 21/22 May 2002  

Report of Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Fire Aboard Royal Caribbean International Passenger vessel Nordic Empress in the Atlantic Ocean, June 15, 2001

Investigation into the grounding of the British flag passenger ship Regal Princess in the Cairns harbour channel on 16th March 2001.  Australian Transport Safety Report No. 166

Report on the Investigation of Wave Damage to the Passenger Cruise Ship Oriana in the North Atlantic Ocean on 28 September 2000

Fire On Board the U.S. Passenger Ferry Columbia, Chatham Strait, near Juneau, Alaska, June 6, 2000

Fire on Board the Netherlands-Registered Passenger Ship Nieuw Amsterdam at Glacier Bay, Alaska, May 23, 2000

Environmental Issues

Why care?  Here's what a crew member wrote in February 2006:  Both RC ships I worked on (Voyager and Radiance) dragged oil through the waters while their azipods were messed up, and I don't believe they ever reported it. Radiance won "Environmental Ship of the year" from RCCL for the same year I personally witnessed a freaking oil slick while tendered in Juneau in June 2003.

A Passenger's View of Royal Caribbean's Private Island

Pollution and Environmental Violations and Fines, 1992-2009

Large Environmental Fines ($100,000+), 1992 - 2009 

Violations and Fines in Alaska, 1999 - 2009

Northwest Cruiseship Association pulls out of MOU with State of Hawai'i

The First Year of the MOU: Known Violations under Hawai'i's Memoradum of Understanding, October 2002 - October 2003

The First Year of the MOU: Known Violations under Washington State's Memoradum of Understanding, 2004 -- 2 ships account for 3 violations

For environmental reports, see International Centre for Cruise Reserach, Miscellaneous Reports (Environmental)


Organizations Concerned Abount Cruise Ship Pollution

Save Our Spit (Gold Coast of Australia)

Bluewater Network / Friends of the Earth

Campaign to Safeguard America's Waters

Friends of Casco Bay

KAHEA: The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance

Livable Oldtown (Key West)

Oceana  (Cruise Ship Pollution Campaign)

The Ocean Conservancy

Planeta.Com -- Global Journal of Practical Ecotourism

Reef Relief -- Protect Living Coral

Labour Issues

Crewz Viewz -- Information for and from Crew

Read Why:

EDITORIAL: Radisson’s “Yes I Can Attitude”
More Accurately Is an “I Don’t Care Attitude”

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