LPG tankers ablaze off Bangladesh

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Was a mooring line failure the root causestrong text of this incident?:

More likely lacks attitude to safety IMHO.
(We have done this sooo many times, what can possibly go wrong)

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I’d believe it, it looks like the line parts and then the lightering tanker gets peeled off.

I spent about a month there discharging a bulker and there wasn’t much of a safety culture from what I saw with the locals. The deck officers had to provide a lot of supervision whenever a lightering ship was tying/untying and a lot of stuff still got broken.

That area also had some ripping currents. Most of the ships around us were running propulsion on the hook to keep from dragging. We were at dead slow to half ahead with a bunch of chain on the bottom for a good chunk of the day.

I didn’t much care for that area.

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There you see, the root cause was not a broken mooring line, lacks attitude to safety, old vessels, or the condition at the anchoage:

Here is the REAL reason:

With a “stroke of a pen” the problem is solved.

PS> When I was Assistant Port Captain in Bangladesh in 1972, problems were usually solved with a brown envelope. (We run 4 small tankers on the rivers for UNPD)

They were far less discrete and more demanding last time I was there, as in “I will need you to pay me $2000 US for me to approve your paperwork.”