Two crew members working on an oil rig anchored just off the shore of Port Campbell in Australia last week have been killed in events that are leading to the questioning of safety measures on oil rigs across the country.Read More

The United States Coast Guard announced this week that they will be formally accepting a new communications system, which is hoping to improve rescue response times involved for offshore rescue operations. The communications system, known as C4 Systems-Built Rescue 21,Read More

Contractors that provide offshore services such as rig suppliers, passenger vessels and maintenance vessels are now facing the risk of liability and accountability if offshore rules and regulations are violated, after a controversial policy has been passed this week. TheRead More

Disaster has struck again in Port Harcourt, the capital of the Rivers State in Nigeria, when a number of fires and an explosion damaged four vessels in three separate incidents within hours of each other. Port Harcourt, which is situatedRead More

A barge owner has pleaded guilty in his case in a District Court in Tacoma to a number of violations of the Clean Water Act, including failure to report an oil leak of which he had full knowledge, and illegallyRead More

The chemical safety board (CSB) have released preliminary findings from their investigation into the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill tragedy that suggest that BP and Transocean may be held liable for the incident. The CSB report states that the oilRead More

Three children were killed after the yacht that they were travelling in capsized on the fourth of July weekend, 2012. The accident occurred off the Long Island coast in the state of the New York, as the yacht was returningRead More

Three men have been charged with manslaughter in connection with the July 2012 sinking of a crowded vessel off the coast of Zanzibar. The vessel, a passenger ferry that was transporting passengers between the two major islands of Zanzibar, overturnedRead More

Two sailors have been killed and three more crewmembers have been seriously injured following a blast on the MSC Flamina, a German cargo vessel. The ship was en route to Antwerp, Belgium from Charleston, South Carolina when the blast occurred,Read More

Four Afghan asylum seekers en route to Australia were killed on June 27 2012, after their vessel capsized off the coast of Indonesia’s largest island, Java. The remainder of the 134 passengers on board, largely children and women, were rescued.Read More