Jeppesen Maersk at Grand Canary--Collapse of Stow

The great pioneers of publishing casualty case studies on the internet are LA cargo attornies Countryman & McDaniel. They publish a packed e-zine each month called CargoLaw and this month's series deals with a case which goes back to late 2006.

The case is introduced by the editor Michael McDaniel:-

One of our valued contributors sent these remarkable photos to us in early Dec. 2006 -- but they were never received. Because our contributor took these photos himself -- this event would have escaped notice had he not resubmitted the material this month. Hence, this is the one that almost got away!

Whilst on a voyage from Felixstowe, England to Kingston, Jamaica, M/V Jeppesen Maersk encountered a violent storm approximately 250 miles North of Tenerife resulting in the disaster described below.

Our contributor -- who wishes to remain anonymous -- took these photos as M/V Jeppesen Maersk made an unscheduled port call at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands in the evening of 25 Nov. 2006.

Was this problem the result of improper lashing securing, bad weather or both?

See the pictures at:-

http://www.cargolaw.com/2008nightmare_jeppesen.html

Watchkeeping near Java

The photographs above appear courtesy of Jim Paisley of Austen Maritime Services in Singapore
who writes:-

Quite often in your publications you mention the poor standard of navigational watch keeping and the resulting costs involved to underwriters when something goes wrong; you are perfectly correct. Please have a look at the attached photographs, taken from a BP operated offshore platform in the Java Sea. The vessel is only 5 meters from the platform and traveling at full speed, the result of any contact could have been catastrophic – fire and explosion, multiple fatalities and probably a major gas release, plus disruption of gas supply and consequently power supply to Jakarta!

Welcome

Welcome to the Visual Impact Gallery.

We aim to publish images of shipping and transport casualties, images of people in these industries and much more.

Many of the sources of our images come from the Readers of two industry e-zines:-

Bow Wave
www.wavyline.com

The Maritime Advocate online
www.avoarchive.com

Other sources include the subscribers to After Office Hours
www.AfterOfficeHours.com

Please feel free to post your comments--we reserve the right to edit or remove comments which are unmannerly

If you would like to contribute images you can also send them to

Sam.Ignarski@gmail.com