FINLANDS SJÖFART ■ SUOMEN MERENKULKU 61 Kachchh vessel traffic services, 13 minutes before the accident, warning of the risk of collision. The bulker’s crew failed to hear it at all because they were monitoring a different VHF channel. Neither vessel had used sound signals as they approached each other, as prescribed in the collision prevention regulations. The tanker’s OOW said he had passed a planned waypoint where he was meant to turn because he wanted to avoid fishing nets that had been spotted off the ship’s side and the report said he had appeared to Aviator and Atlantic Grace following the 2021 collision. CREDIT: MARSHALL ISLANDS MARITIME ADMINISTRATOR prioritise this over assessing the risk of collision. The investigation report recommends that the managers of both ships ‘use the lessons learned from this very serious marine casualty’ as the basis for reviewing with masters ‘their expectations for providing oversight of and guidance for junior deck officers’.
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