Safety recommendations and responses availability. [Training of shipmasters in automated radar plotting]

Journal Article · Thu Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 1980 · Fed. Regist. (Wash., D.C.); (United States)

OSTI ID:6283059

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended that the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Exxon Co. USA require shipmasters assigned to a vessel equipped with an automated radar plotting aid to complete an approved training course before assignment to avoid the recurrence of accidents similar to the collision of the Exxon Chester tankship and the Regal Sword Liberian freighter in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on 6/18/79. Following the explosion, burning, and sinking of the Liberian tankship, Seatiger, at a Sun Oil Terminal Inc. berth in Nederland, Texas on 4/19/79, NTSB also urged USCG to require foreign and domestic crude oil tankers of 20,000 dwt and above that are equipped with inert systems to place these systems in operation while in US waters, except when cargo tanks are gas-free; instructed Sun Oil Terminals Inc. to provide an emergency communication system between berthed vessels and its terminal office during communication system between berthed vessels and its terminal office during cargo discharging; and recommended that the American Bureau of Shipping instruct tanker surveyors to examine flame screens. Other safety recommendations and responses by federal agencies are also discussed.

• OSTI ID: 6283059
• Journal Information: Fed. Regist. (Wash., D.C.); (United States), Vol. 45:188
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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