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Name: Premkumar Rajendran Student ID: 33893 Rank: IV th Engineer Summary: Deck Air Compressor Dismantling / Boxing up, V-type, Reciprocating, Air-cooled. Crank case over pressuring & fuming through crank case breather. Corrective Action/ Lessons to be Learnt: Piston opened/ Dismantled a chain, gudgeon pin withdrawn, o’ring renewed, Compressor boxed up. Tried out satisfactory. Lesson learnt: Read More

Name: Raju Raghul Kumar Student ID: 5345 Rank: Chief EngineerSummary: Bunkering At Singapore/ Malaysia EOPL While taking bunkering at Malaysia, Singapore EOPL we have to be very careful in observing the bubble formation of oil sounding of tanks, since cappuccino effect being produced by some of the suppliers. Corrective Action/ Lesson to be Learnt: After Read More

Name: Sundravadivel V, Student ID: 71173, Rank: CIEY – Chief Engineers Summary: Life raft painter not connected to the proper hook during a port state inspection, the inspector found the painter was not connected to the weak hook properly. The pointer was connected to the wrong hook, this life raft was sent for the shore Read More

Name: Varun John Paul, Student ID: 30450, Rank: 3rd Engineer – Class IV Summary: Injury to personnel when working on the blower of Sewage Treatment Plant . Corrective Action/ Lessons to be learnt: Time constraint is important. Jobs to be done of only when time permits and not to be done in a hurry Senior Read More

Name: Velmurugan K, Student ID: 68412, Rank: 2A/E – Class IV Summary: Not taking serious about false alarm During manoeuvring going for loading, vessel had stern tube oil high temp alarm for few seconds and gone. Engineers thought its false alarm but its not false alarm and its real alarm triggered because while proceeding for Read More

Name: Mr Wenceslaus Joseph, 2/E During the Saturday routine, Master wanted to lower the rescue boat from the upper deck level and accordingly he passed the orders. He was advised by the fellow officers to lower it to the upper deck level (embarkation deck) and then to lower the boat. But Master refused to heed Read More

Name: Mr. D. Dineshkumar, C/E During the overhauling to M/E unit 1 fuel pump, the fitter had burn injuries in his left hand palm and the face. The main cause is due to non following of the proper procedure. Tool box meeting carried out. 2/E thought he, had given all safety instructions, but he forgot Read More

Capt. Anilkumar , Master While deballasting in an South American port, a minor oil pollution was observed. The deballasting was stopped and on investigation, it was found that the ODME line valve connecting ballast line and cargo line was not shut. The defect rectified and the deballasting was done. Since the pollution was very minor, Read More

Name: Capt. Manmath Nath Pattnaik Ship was in drydock and finished the repairs. Before all machinery could be checked, since the cargo was available, (Aframax Tanker), the company directed for loading the cargo. Steering gear was not checked. The vessel loaded the oil, and proceeded to the discharge port in the US east coasat. The Read More

Name: Mr P Jyothi Bose Accidents do take place when the pilot transfers himself from the pilot ladder to the gangway and vice versa. It is preferable to have lengthier steps in between at regular intervals. Also it is required now to have life line and life buoy as standby and a responsible officer should Read More