anyone have a link to where this archive exists? thanks!
Try this: [CGMIX Home - Online Incident Investigation Reports](http://cgmix.uscg.mil/IIR/Default.aspx)
I saw that site, but I didn’t see any list of archive reports.
I found it through ntsb.gov then here:
http://ntsb.gov/Publictn/M_Acc.htm
Makes for interesting, and sometimes historical, reading. Like this one!: http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2009/MAR0901.htm for Cosco Busan accident.
I found what I was looking for:
http://www.maib.gov.uk/publications/investigation_reports/alphabetical_lists.cfm
and here:
http://ntsb.gov/Publictn/M_Acc.htm
OK I realize this thread is now quite old but I have only just discovered this site in my ongoing search for a US Coast Guard Accident Report. I actually have what I believe to be a lot of information on where, when, how the report was filed. I cannot seem to locate anyone that can find the reports. Is there a place where reports from the period of 1984 to 1986 are filed. I have search online with NTSB, US Coast Guard San Juan Puerto Rico detachment, Washington, NARA Archives in Washington and New York.
I was speaking with the gentleman that filed the reports, of which there are two. He tells me that incident reports were filed with the USCG in Puerto Rico, likely St. Croix buy possibly San Juan in late September, possibly early October as the reports were filed a couple of days after the fact, in the year 1984, 1985 or 1986. My best information suggests 1985.The incidents occurred “off the coast of Montserrat” is all I have for location. I do know the departure point and destination of the vessel in question. Something would have been filed as the reports involved explosion/fire with subsequent loss of life and the second report with the loss of the vessel. The vessel was not small measuring about 130 long with a 22 foot beam. Anyone have any suggestion on where/how to obtain information about the reports. I have another email in to the Suan Juan detachment but have not yet heard back. Many of the online records I have found, USCG included don’t go back far enough. In same cases, like NTSB Marine accidents the relevant years are skipped.
How far back do the USCG accident reports go?
[QUOTE=tugsailor;178694]How far back do the USCG accident reports go?[/QUOTE]
The online “IIR Search Page” goes back to about 2011.
[QUOTE=tugsailor;178694]How far back do the USCG accident reports go?[/QUOTE]
Not sure if my previous post got lost waiting for moderator approval or if something went wrong so here goes again just in case.
Online Accident reports for USCG go back to about 2011. The page does indicate that reports date back to 2002 but the default search start date is 2011.
[QUOTE=rookie_2468;179049]Not sure if my previous post got lost waiting for moderator approval or if something went wrong so here goes again just in case.
Online Accident reports for USCG go back to about 2011. The page does indicate that reports date back to 2002 but the default search start date is 2011.
https://cgmix.uscg.mil/iir/IIRSearch.aspx[/QUOTE]
your post is posted, If you are in contact with the Coast Guard as you indicate, they should be able to help more than anyone here. The Coast Guard has been investigating for a long time, well before the period you identify. However, reading your post, I’m not sure I understand why there would be a report for an incident off of Montserrat filed with the US Coast Guard, but as you provide no details on the vessel, I can’t say either way. .
[QUOTE=Jamesbrown;179053]your post is posted, If you are in contact with the Coast Guard as you indicate, they should be able to help more than anyone here. The Coast Guard has been investigating for a long time, well before the period you identify. However, reading your post, I’m not sure I understand why there would be a report for an incident off of Montserrat filed with the US Coast Guard, but as you provide no details on the vessel, I can’t say either way. .[/QUOTE]
The vessel was the S.V. Onaygorah. Left Punta Cana DR, under tow by the M.V. Zingara to be transported to the island of Martinique. When I spoke with the Captain of the Zingara he told me that he personally filed the incident reports with the United States Coast Guard in Puerto Rico although he could not specifically say whether it was San Juan or St. Croix. He indicated likely St. Croix. The location of Montserrat is quite loose in its specifics. I have asked the Captain if he would mind checking his logs to see if he had more detailed information on location, to which he responded “I will if I get a chance”. That over a year ago. He cautioned, obviously, that there were no GPS coordinates at that time so even his log books may have a not insignificant margin of error. Onaygorah measured 130 feet long with a 23 foot beam and her masts stretched about 150 feet above the decks. As she was made of concrete unless she is in over 100 metres of water, which is highly probable in my opinion, her hulk could pose a possible navigation hazard.
There were two reports filed. The first involved an explosion in the engine room and wheel house with injury and subsequent loss of life, which I am given to understand carries mandatory reporting. The second report was the loss of the vessel which also carries mandatory reporting.
My issue isn’t so much that they can’t find the report on Onaygorah, no one is able to tell me where any reports from that period are kept. Everyone, including San Juan station, says not us but all other bodies to which I was referred (USCG Washingtion, NARA in Washingtion and New York) all refer me back to San Juan. My last contact with San Juan specifically posed the question, to whom should I be speaking? To date no response but that email is relatively recent, about a week and a half ago.
[QUOTE=rookie_2468;179073]The vessel was the S.V. Onaygorah. Left Punta Cana DR, under tow by the M.V. Zingara to be transported to the island of Martinique. When I spoke with the Captain of the Zingara he told me that he personally filed the incident reports with the United States Coast Guard in Puerto Rico although he could not specifically say whether it was San Juan or St. Croix. He indicated likely St. Croix. The location of Montserrat is quite loose in its specifics. I have asked the Captain if he would mind checking his logs to see if he had more detailed information on location, to which he responded “I will if I get a chance”. That over a year ago. He cautioned, obviously, that there were no GPS coordinates at that time so even his log books may have a not insignificant margin of error. Onaygorah measured 130 feet long with a 23 foot beam and her masts stretched about 150 feet above the decks. As she was made of concrete unless she is in over 100 metres of water, which is highly probable in my opinion, her hulk could pose a possible navigation hazard.
There were two reports filed. The first involved an explosion in the engine room and wheel house with injury and subsequent loss of life, which I am given to understand carries mandatory reporting. The second report was the loss of the vessel which also carries mandatory reporting.
My issue isn’t so much that they can’t find the report on Onaygorah, no one is able to tell me where any reports from that period are kept. Everyone, including San Juan station, says not us but all other bodies to which I was referred (USCG Washingtion, NARA in Washingtion and New York) all refer me back to San Juan. My last contact with San Juan specifically posed the question, to whom should I be speaking? To date no response but that email is relatively recent, about a week and a half ago.[/QUOTE]
mandatory if in US waters, or if Zingara was a US flag–which seems unlikely. The Onaygorah looks to have been Canadian flag so no reportable there unless again in US waters. Perhaps a report or two were filed, but it may have been deemed non-reportable and not retained.