this slide is about some disaster happened in shipping history and we experienced and learned from that mistakes

1. Stories about Disasters
In shipping industry
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence
God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up!
Love! Pray!”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

2. Maersk Honam – Arabian Sea, 2018
• On March 6th, 2018, the Maersk Honam, a Singapore-
registered 353-meter container ship capacity of 15626
TEUs caught fire and sank in the Arabian Sea, 900 nautical
southeast of Oman
• carrying over 7,000 containers and was carrying
dangerous goods
The fire started in the forward cargo hold and quickly
spread throughout the vessel due to the highly
combustible nature of the cargo.
23 crew members evacuated to a nearby containership
but 5 had lost their life
The Maersk Honam was eventually salvaged and towed
to Dubai for repairs

3. MOL Comfort – Indian Ocean, 2013
The single worst container shipping disaster in modern history.
On June 17, 2013, the 2008-built, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines ship
developed a catastrophic hog and broke in two while
underway in the Indian Ocean
All crew members on board abandoned the ship safely, but
both halves of the vessel stayed afloat as rescuers watched
on. The stern section sank in spectacular fashion after
about 10 days. Salvors could attach a tow line to the bow,
but it too later caught fire and sank after several weeks.
MOL Comfort was on its way from Singapore to Jeddah
carrying 4,500 containers
the ship had suffered a hull girder fracture, but
investigators were unable to determine the exact cause of
initial fracture and led to the adoption of new rules
concerning the hull girder strength of large container
ships.

5. Hanjin Pennsylvania – Indian Ocean, 2002
• The Hanjin Pennsylvania was less than a year out
of the shipyard when an explosion occurred in a
cargo hold on November 11, 2002, in Sri Lanka
during a voyage from Singapore to Germany.
Four days after the initial blast, a second explosion
rocked the 282-meter vessel. Its source? One or
more containers filled with fireworks that were
misdeclared on the ship’s manifest.
Tragically, two crew members were killed in the
accident. As for the ship, she stayed afloat but was
eventually declared a total loss and sold for scrap.
She never made it to the breakers, however, and she
was rebuilt and returned to service as the Norasia
Bellatrix.

6. Rena – New Zealand, 2011
The worst maritime disaster in New-Zealand
• Rena is a container ship that ran
aground on the Astrolabe Reef, off the
coast of the North Island of New Zealand
in October 2011. The ship spilt hundreds
of tons of fuel oil and other pollutants
into the ocean, causing one of New
Zealand’s worst environmental disasters.
The oil spill caused significant damage to
the surrounding environment and
wildlife, including the death of thousands
of sea birds and other marine life. The
ship was eventually salvaged, but the
environmental damage caused by the
spill is still being felt today.

7. Hyundai Fortune – Gulf of Aden, 2006
The 274-meter Hyundai Fortune was rocked by a
powerful explosion while heading west in the Gulf of Aden
on March 21, 2006. Dozens of containers were blown
overboard in the blast, creating a debris field that was
estimated to be five miles around the vessel. The
resulting fire burned for several days.
All 27 crew members abandoned the ship and were
picked up by a destroyer with the Royal Netherlands
Navy, with only one receiving non-life-threatening injuries.

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