Oil Spill on Deck Format: pdf #safety #oilSpill #training

On 19 November 2002, the single-hull Aframax tanker PRESTIGE broke in two and sank in waters of the North Atlantic off the northwest coast of Spain.

It had been carrying a cargo of 77,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil from Russia and Latvia to Singapore when it encountered heavy weather on 13 November. It suffered structural failures and developed a substantial list.
A distress call was made to Spanish authorities. The total cost of the damage has been estimated at over €4.4bn, with 22,000 dead birds found in the immediate aftermath of the incident. Format: mp4 #structuralFailures #oilspill #incident

NTSB investigators determined that the oil leak, which began on Oct. 1, 2021, in San Pedro Bay, resulted from an anchor strike on the pipeline that occurred eight months earlier, when anchors from the containerships Beijing and MSC Danit dragged and contacted the pipeline during high winds and seas caused by a cold front. The proximity of the anchorage positions the vessels were assigned to did not give the crews sufficient time or space to heave in their dragging anchors before contacting the pipeline. The NTSB determined MSC Danit anchor’s contact with the pipeline was the initiating event that led to the crude oil release.Format: pdf Language: eng #NTSB #anchor #pipeline #oilspill

Failure to Verify Bunkering Quantity Leads to Major Fuel Spill.This internal summary is based on a report issued by the Hong Kong Marine Department (Information Note No. 34/2025). It addresses an oil spill that occurred during a bunkering operation involving a Marshall Islands-registered vessel at a container terminal in Hong Kong #MSM #Incident #OilSpill #BunkeringOperation