The Helge Ingstad accident report is finally out, or at least the first part of it: Summary page with visual media PDF Download Key factors identified are inexperienced officers on the bridge, piss poor watch keeping and non-existent BRM. The report comes with video of the impact, recorded from …

[image] Uricanejack: Still working my way through the report, possibly one of the longest and most thoughtful I’ve read in a long time. Still, too bad they left out some details in name of political correctness and in order to protect identities of those involved. In particular I do not see …

[image] Kennebec_Captain: The OOD was stuck on an incorrect interpretation of what he was seeing. That makes perfect sense, so long as you presume that the OOW tried to resolve the situation visually, which he clearly did. Trouble is, that wasn’t his job. He was supposed to keep an eye on t…

A pelorus is the term used to mean the centreline gyrocompass repeater at the conning position in navy speak. In square riggers a fitting was placed on the port and starboard rails and the pelorus, basically a gimballed azimuth ring was shipped into the fitting to take a relative bearing and the tr…

On older merchant ships you would have a standard compass on the Monkey Island and a steering compass in front of the steering position, Bearings were taken from the Standard compass.by climbing up top with the pelorus The bearing(s) could be communicated to the bridge via a “blowpipe”, or more lik…

Is Gender relevant? I don’t think so. Scandinavians are generally much more integrated. So possibly a mix. The OOWT was a English speaking officer from an allied navy. Probably the American., He did not understand the communication in Norwegian. The Norwegian OOW would have. The language of comm…

[image] Uricanejack: Rather an inability to resolve conflicting recollections. As far as conflicting recollections go I like this footnote. At 04:00:11, the OOW on HNoMS Helge Ingstad replied: ‘No, then we will sail too close to eh… blokkene/båkene’. 15 15 The exact word that is spoken …

Is a courts marshal in the offering now the inquiry is over?

Yes the OOW and obviously the OOWT. We’re stuck on an incorrect interpretation of what they were seeing. The rest of the Bridge team. OOWA + T and Port Lookout were stuck in the same misconception or didn’t question it. The HM knew it was a tanker but thought the OOW knew it was and didn’t say any…

[image] Uricanejack: Is Gender relevant? I don’t think so. We all know the OOW was male, since his voice turns up on the VHF recording. Meanwhile, persistent rumors (multiple well connected sources) have it that the American OOWT was a rather attractive female. Might this have influenced th…

This reminds of kids drowning right in front of 50 people at a pool party. When everyone is supposed to be watching something, no one is. As far as the deck lights go, it has always annoyed me that ships tend to use deck lights and/or anchor lights that are essentially street lights or at least use…

Helge Ingstad Accident Report

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