The Titanic and Evacuation, Survival and Rescue
The TITANIC, as fitted out, proved deficient in at least one important item: lifeboats. Continue reading
All talk and no action
A great deal has been said, at the seemingly numberless conferences on (a) piracy, and (b) the Year of the Seafarer, that (c) there is a shortage of qualified seafarers; (d) that “criminalisation” of the seafarer is a growing problem; that (e) better training is needed; and that (f) we of the shipping community must do something about these problems. Continue reading
The Audit Scheme – an IMO success story
As I was sitting in the back of the main conference room at IMO two weeks ago, a fellow delegate leaned over and said; “Every so often, something happens here that is really important.” Continue reading