MAIB accident report finds Seatruck bridge team was “overloaded”
UK accident report finds that the bridge team aboard the holed Seatruck Ferries ro-ro Arrow was not fully prepared for pilotage in poor visibility off Aberdeen.
The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published its report on the grounding of the Seatruck ro-ro Arrow. The 1998-built, 1,057-lane-metre vessel was holed while entering Aberdeen harbour on 25th June 2020.
The ship suffered significant damage, but there were no injuries and the vessel was successfully floated 45 minutes later. The investigation found the bridge team was not fully prepared for the entry to Aberdeen and that bridge resource management was poor.
“There was no effective shared mental model of the pilotage plan and the vessel’s progress along it.
“He [a deck officer provided by the ship’s charterer] became overloaded in the fog that enclosed the Arrow a few minutes before it entered Aberdeen’s 70-metre-wide navigation channel and, while trying to correct a deviation to the north of the planned track, he overcorrected to the south,” MAIB said.
