VIDEO: Damaged Navy ship back in port, 7 crew missing

JUNE 17, 2016 — Sixteen hours after being involved in a collision with the Philippine-flagged merchant ship ACX Crystal while operating about 56 nautical miles off the coast of Japan, the USS

USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) damaged in collision with containership

JUNE 16, 2017 —The Navy reports that the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) was involved in a collision with a merchant vessel at approximately 2:30 a.m. local time, June

Inadequate lookouts blamed in daylight collision

DECEMBER 29, 2016 — The U.K.’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch report into the August 2015 collision of the general cargo vessel Daroja and oil bunker barge Erin Wood says the accident happened

Lack of communications led to Houston Ship Channel collision

JUNE 9, 2016 — The National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday that the probable cause of the 2015 collision of the Conti Peridot and the Carla Maersk in the Houston Ship Channel

Radio miscommunication contributes to collision

AUGUST 12, 2015—An investigative report by The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) said a miscommunication between a pilot boat and a small passenger vessel last August in Saint John, New Brunswick, contributed to the

VHF recordings leaked following cruise ship collision

JUNE 29, 2015 — Though one passenger reportedly said the experience was “like being on the Titanic,” video shows that a collision between the elderly cruise ship Celestyal Crystal and a 38,734

USCG responds to multi-vessel Mississippi collision

APRIL 7, 2015 —The Coast Guard is responding to an collision on the lower Mississippi River near Convent, LA. Yesterday at approximately 4:00 p.m., watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received

NTSB issues preliminary report on Ship Channel collision

APRIL 3, 2015 — APRIL 3, 2015 — The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a preliminary report on the March 9 Houston Ship Channel incident in which the bulker Conti Peridot

Houston Ship Channel reopens

MARCH 12, 2015 — The Houston Ship Channel was reopened this morning, after responders completed initial salvage plans on the damaged chemical tanker Carla Maersk and successfully moved the vessel to Barbour’s

Houston Ship Channel closed after MBTE spill

MARCH 10, 2015 — A section of the Houston Ship Channel remained closed today following yesterday’s collision at Morgan’s Point between the Carla Maersk, a 600-foot chemical tanker, and the Conti Peridot,

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