Sounds like she’s already been involved in her first incident. I hope the crewmembers involved aren’t critically injured and recover quickly. Scary stuff! UK MAIB: “We’ve started an investigation into injuries sustained by crewmembers inside a lifeboat that rolled onto its side and then fell overbo…

With a new crew I used to lower the boat to the deck with no crew aboard. Then after every knew the drill put the crew in and do it again.

She have been out of the yard and on extensive sea trials for months, so probably not the first time they have had a drill. Investigation is ongoing, so the truth will come out soon. PS> Vestdavit claim that their launching procedure is easy to understand and perform. So is maintenance of their eq…

My thoughts exactly. Complacency is usually a loss of focus trait where a person takes something for granted or just think they know better. This still could be the case. We don’t know. But, it should be pretty damn difficult to accidentally on-load release with the new hook designs – which require…

[image] ombugge: She have been out of the yard and on extensive sea trials for months, so probably not the first time they have had a drill. Investigation is ongoing, so the truth will come out soon. PS> Vestdavit claim that their launching procedure is easy to understand and perform. So is ma…

Not definitive of course but the wording in the article makes it sound like it was not crew error. The MAIB says crew members sustained injuries while inside a lifeboat that rolled onto its side then fell overboard during a launching drill. “We can confirm that on Thursday 4 March a lifeboat fa…

I’m glad we have a free fall boat. Seems like much less to go wrong.

Launching drills with crew in a life boat is a bad idea. What’s the point? You want to train the lifeboat coxswain how to handle the weight of passengers? Put some sacks of provisions in the lifeboat to simulate weight. At one point as chief I forbade my assistants to participate in live launching o…

You need crew aboard to test an empty lifeboat, i.e. to release it when it touches sea. Same crew will later reconnect the empty boat, so it can be lifted aboard after the test. Fully loaded tests is 100% different. You cannot lift a fully loaded lifeboat back on the ship.

Yes, but you can lower the crew in the rescue boat and lower the lifeboat to the water, have them climb in and exercise, then reconnect and have the crew get back in the rescue boat and hoist the lifeboat with nobody in it. That way when it falls off nobody gets hurt.

The monthly drill doesn’t require anyone in the lifeboat, the quarterly drill requires the boat be operated in the water. That requires a boat crew.

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