Amazing that the Coast Guard had to use Navy rescue swimmers up to this point. And the Navy swimmers were really trained as “downed pilot rescue”.
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The foundation of current practices is built on success and tested by failure.
Take collision avoidance, for example. The reason we still discuss the Andrea Doria and Stockholm collision is because the introduction of radar at sea tested previously adequate practices that had evolved over centuries of maritime tradition.
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Collision of Arizona Standard and Oregon Standard under the Golden Gate Bridge (1971) - led to the establishment of VTS in the US.
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I do not see the loss of the El Faro on here. Did nothing come of that incident?
Most realized that everything the USCG changed following the Marine Electric (in terms of inspections) was forgotten by the regulatory CG.
Ugh
The El Faro is mentioned in the original post and I feel like that one is very well known, so I didn’t include it here. I should have, since I listed the Estonia!
Because of the El Faro, ships are required to have better/more accurate weather reporting systems, among other effects. If someone more knowledgeable could expand on this, I’d be grateful.
Very simple, corporate greed.
This one is from 2014 but the MV Sewol.
It was a South Korean ferry that sunk/Capsized off the coast.
Carrying 476 Passengers, 304 would die- 250 of them being students from a single High School.
This one was a Cluster from the top down, From the Government response to the Media to the Company to the crew and even the Media for example interviewed a fake Diver that caused conflicting messaging amongst Emergency Response.
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“Significant” in this context is very subjective. I didn’t really have any specific criteria in mind.
From my point of view the incidents that seem the most salient tend to be the ones I found more relevant personally for whatever reason.
The Titanic was very high profile and significant in terms of impact at the time and later SOLAS etc but I’d put a lesser known incident on a list.
If the captain of the Bounty has survived, I believe he would have been charged with whatever maritime law would apply. To believe an old wooden boat would be better off in the middle of a major hurricane than moored to a dock was ridiculous/foolish.
I was in Korea when that happened. Those children need not have died but the Korean obedience to hierarchy contributed to it much as it did to a Koran airline crash and the El Faro I might add
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I was under the impression that the Staten Island Ferry crash (Andrew Barberi) resulted in new regulations for BNWAS systems.
It was notable that the captain’s doctor was also charged with negligence (for falsifying paperwork on a yearly physical).
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Significant not because it involved the loss of 1700 lives, but the sinking of the RMS Laconia by U-156 led to improvements in the content and stowage of survival equipment on lifeboats.
1995 Royal Majesty grounded on Rose and. Crown Shoal about 10 miles east of Nantucket. - GPS receiver connection to the antenna failed and the the receiver switched to DR mode.
In 2014Team Vestas Wind struck a reef in the Indian Ocean. The reef was only displayed at certain zoom levels.