Accident reports, safety studies including Bridge Watchkeeping Safety,
Fishing Vessel Safety and the effects of fatigue.SOURCE OF ACCIDENT INFORMATION
Canadian Transportation Safety Board Accident Reports - This new home page of the Canadian TSB allows the user to search on recent transportation accident reports including marine. It takes as long as two years for reports to be finalized but they will then be posted.
Coast Guard Investigations site which contains good information on investigation procedures, policies, recent reports, and lessons learn.
Coast Guard Marine Board investigation reports for five decades.
Human Factor the Key to Maritime Safety - A view from Europe involving the tanker PRESTIGE sinking.
UK Marine
Accident Investigative Branch -
Accident reports, safety studies including Bridge Watchkeeping Safety,
Fishing Vessel Safety and the effects of fatigue.
NTSB Marine Accident Reports - Reports of maritime accidents investigated by the NTSB. NTSB has not been as active in recent years in their investigation of maritime accidents and thus there are fewer recent reports.
NTSB Studies - Studies conducted by the NTSB into maritime safety areas of concern such as lifejacket wearing, fatigue, PWC and much more.
New Zealand Marine Investigation Reports - This link is to the Transportation Accident Investigation Commission's Marine Occurrence Report Index which accesses investigative reports of marine casualties in New Zealand. The reports are in PDF and some take a long time to download.
SPECIFIC ACCIDENT REPORTS - Alphabetical by ship name
NTSB Report on M/V Anne Holly Marine Casualty - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its Marine Accident Report on the 1998 marine casualty on the Mississippi River involving the M/V Anne Holly and the ramming of the gaming vessel President Casino on the Admiral.
Coast Guard report. This loss of a small head and gut fishing vessel in Alaskan waters resulted in the greatest loss of life in the last half century. See news articleAllision
Tug BROWN WATER V and The Queen Isabella Causeway Bridge -
Allision of Staten Island Ferry Andrew J. Barberi
The NTSB final report on the allision of the Staten Island Ferry with the dock which resulted in the death of ten persons and injury to many more.COLUMBIA Fire - The NTSB report on the Alaska Ferry (Passenger vessel) generators fire May 28, 2003.
EL LODA CASH - Vivid photographs on a Canadian Coast Guard vessel searching for a fishing vessel that probably iced up and capsized with loss of 4 - Spring 2004
Malta's Report on Loss of M/V ERIKA - The report of the investigation of the Malta Maritime Authority into the loss of the motor tanker ERIKA on Sunday 12 December 1999 has been posted on the Web through the dedication and effort of friends across the pond. Adobe Acrobat Reader and RealDownload are required. (Be patient - Long download time)
Fish Processor GALAXY
fire and sinking - The two part Coast Guard report
released June 2005. Part 1 contains the comments by the chain of command
on the report, Part 2 is the report itself.
PART 1 -
PART 2
USCG Concludes that F/V Linda E Sunk following Collision - The U.S. Coast Guard reopened its investigation into the sinking of the fishing vessel LINDA E on Lake Michigan and concluded that it probably sank as the result of a collision with the ITB MICHIGAN/GREAT LAKES.
PRESTIGE Sinking - European report and views on the tanker breakup and sinking off the coast of Spain 13 November 2002
PRIDE OF PROVENCE - England's Report on the investigation of the contact between and The Southern Breakwater,