Subsea engineering and training company, Jee, will host a free-to-attend offshore decommissioning webinar on April 13 2016. The webinar, titled ‘Innovation and efficiency in decommissioning’ will be presented by Head of Late Life, Graham Wilson. It will discuss how decommissioning can be done differently to realise cost savings and environmental and safety benefits. “The growing… Continue Reading »
Subsea Cables UK, the trade association for submarine power and telecommunications cables for the United Kingdom and Northern Europe, has announced its 44th Plenary. The Plenary will be held at The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin, ROI, hosted by Sea Fibre Networks. The Plenary will be held over 1.5 days on the 4th/5th March 2015, with… Continue Reading »
The World Ocean Council (WOC) has announced that the 3rd Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS) will be held on 9-11 November, 2015 in Singapore. The SOS is the only international, multi-sectoral, business event dedicated to “Corporate Ocean Responsibility”. This first SOS to be held in Asia, the 2015 event is being developed in collaboration with stakeholders in… Continue Reading »
RenewableUK, has announced that, for the first time ever, one of the most prestigious global conferences on renewable energy will be held in the UK. The 6th International Conference on Ocean Energy (ICOE) will take place from 23rd to 25th February 2016 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. It will be organised and hosted by… Continue Reading »
Including information from exhibitors on what they will be featuring This year’s International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) Annual Seminar (Landmark Hotel, London, 19-20 November) has as its theme ‘Where next for the offshore marine industry?’ and focuses on the initiatives being employed to improve performance across all IMCA’s technical divisions – Marine, Diving, Offshore Survey… Continue Reading »
Near Miss: Unexpected Lowering of a Suspended Load A member has reported an incident in which there was an unexpected lowering of a suspended load during a lifting operation which had the potential to cause significant injury. During maintenance of an ROV winch system, a yoke was being supported in position by a shore crane… Continue Reading »
Country: null Location: OFFSHORE : Other offshore Release Date: — Time incident occurred: — Type of Activity: Diving, Subsea, ROV Type of Injury: null Function: null Applicabale Filter Categories: System/Equipment failure
Country: CANADA – North America Location: — Incident Date: 22 June 2008 Time: — Type of Activity: Lifting, crane, rigging, deck operations Type of Injury: Struck by Function: — Applicabale Filter Categories: Struck by,System/Equipment failure
Poor Maintenance and Subsequent Failure of Welding Equipment During a recent mobilisation on a member’s vessel, sub-contractors were burning and welding sea fastenings on the main deck. Following a report that flames were coming from the contractors’ acetylene tank regulator situated inside the holding gas quad, a small fire was extinguished at the regulator, which… Continue Reading »
Near Miss – Dropped Clump Weight A member has reported an incident in which a clump weight was inadvertently dropped to the seabed. The incident occurred during diving operations when operating a deck mounted tool deployment A-frame which incorporated two tugger winch systems and a downline powered sheave. Each tugger winch wire had an 88kg… Continue Reading »
