RECENT MARITIME INCIDENT

Recent Maritime Incident: Case Analysis

Recent Maritime Incident: Case Analysis

Introduction

The number of Maritime incidents has risen in the past few years, because of increased transportation in the sea. On the one hand, this increase in oceanic transportation has helped business and economies to grow rapidly. On the other hand, this increase is also becoming a one of the causes of maritime incidents (Cook 2002, pp. 12-16). However, increase in transportation is merely not the cause of maritime accidents, but, other factors also contribute to make an accident happen in the maritime. For example, an accident may take place because of the vessel personnel on board, or within the management of the vessel's operating company, or within the vessel's classification system or the regulatory framework for the vessel may also cause an accident. In this connection, this study, will attempt to explore a recent maritime incident that took place recently, and will investigate the cause closely, to analyse the causes of the accident (Maes 2005, pp. 66-87).

Background of the Case

Jack Abry II, a trawler ship of a Brittany base company, returned to Lochinver after a 10 days trip on the early hours of January, 31 2011 to land her catch and attempt a crew change partially. The mate was on monitoring with the skipper while the arrival of the vessel at port. The skipper of the vessel leaves his home in France, early in the morning, to re-join the vessel, by travelling approximately 11 hours from his home to Lochinver (www.bbc.co.uk). The journey of the skipper involved a drive of 3 hour to Lorient for catching the flight to Inverness, from where the skipper had to catch the bus to Lochinver, which may take approximately 2.1/2 hour. By the time, he arrived at the vessel at 1400 hours; he had been awake for around 11 hours. The skipper (also referred as mate) had slept only 14 hours totally, over the last 3 nights, which includes 4 hours sleep before the night he departed from his home to rejoin the vessel. The skipper was experienced in fishing, and had approximately 32 years of experience for fishing, and had also earned professional qualification to become a skipper (www.bbc.co.uk). The length and quality of this sleep had reportedly been affected by anxiety caused by domestic issues. Although he had recently commenced taking prescribed medication for an unrelated medical problem, he had reportedly suffered no side effects as a result.

After arriving on board, the captain of the vessel just show his consent to ready to go. His assessment of the weather, in which he excluded the poor whether condition likely to turned up in the next four days of fishing in the northwest of Scotland. However, the forecast is more favorable in southern Ireland, the captain decided to adopt a two-day Ireland Sea through the South. Not prepared by a continuous program; the captain uses his practical experience beside not the manner or cross track error (XTE) alarm, by following the chart plotter on the ...