https://www.marineinsight.com/naval-architecture/why-ships-sink-10-major-reasons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-ships-sink-10-major-reasons The Maritime Industry Guide Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:58:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.marineinsight.com/naval-architecture/why-ships-sink-10-major-reasons/#comment-4759218 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:46:27 +0000 https://www.marineinsight.com/?p=1727922#comment-4759218 Captain Ascencio is correct. Training, without proper experience and thinking constantly about your job and responsibilities, will not avert a disaster.

]]> https://www.marineinsight.com/naval-architecture/why-ships-sink-10-major-reasons/#comment-4740940 Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:18:58 +0000 https://www.marineinsight.com/?p=1727922#comment-4740940 in my traduction:
Throughout my life as an officer of the Mexican Merchant Navy (20 Years), I was trained and educated maritime. Under the premise that “A SHIP IS A LEAF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN, AND THAT THE ANTS ON BOARD THE LEAF SHOULD ACT INTELLIGENTLY SO THAT THE LEAF, WIDE AND FRAGILE DOES NOT DROP AND REACHES THE NEXT SHORE”, gives us an example of what every self-respecting sailor must do on board a ship, whatever it may be.
Current times have turned the minds of new sailors (worldwide) into automatons that respond only to a screen and what it expresses; the reasoning and the development of the imagination about what may happen under certain or some circumstances or conditions no longer apply as a first action, now they consult the navigation or safety devices to be able to act, without even reasoning the conditions of that moment.
“HOW MANY TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES WASTE BY THE CAPTAINS OF THE SHIPS BY NOT GIVING IMPORTANCE TO THE ZAFARRANCHO EXERCISES AND THE ISM CODE”
Currently I am an independent maritime inspector (in Mexico) and I know first-hand what many Captains and Officers write in their LOG JOURNALS, “ZAFARRANCHO WAS CARRIED OUT AGAINST FIRE”, however this activity has not been supported by any act that guarantees that said activity had a positive impact on the participants, or that it resolved any doubts in them, and so on. That is why I mention that “THEY LOSE THE OPPORTUNITY OF TRAINING ON BOARD”, when the dumps are not executed properly.
“AN OFFICER OF A VESSEL, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, OF ANY FLAG, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR:
* THE LIVES OF YOUR TRAVEL COMPANIONS,
* OF THE CARGO THAT IS TRANSPORTED,
* FROM THE UNIT THAT HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED AND
* OF THE ECOLOGICAL DISASTER ORIGINATING WITH THE SINKING OF A TRANSPORTATION UNIT ENTRUSTED TO IT.
Because in the event of extreme damage, we leave behind:
** OUR FAMILY MEMBERS AND ON OUR COMPANIONS, WHO DEPENDED ON US;
** WE DELAYED THE PROGRESS OF THOSE WHO TRUSTED US;
** WE FAILED AND DAMAGED THOSE WHO ENTRUSTED US WITH THEIR GOODS AND
** WE DAMAGE THE ECONOMY OF COUNTRIES THAT LIVE FROM FISHING, BY POLLUTING THEIR WATERS.
If only MARITIME ACTIVITY WERE EXERCISED AS A RESPONSIBLE AND HUMAN PROFESSION, OF COMMON SENSE AND OF PROFESSIONAL DEMAND, I believe that the cases of fires, strandings and other polluting maritime accidents would be greatly reduced.

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