Report on Maritime Accidents

204 Pages·2016·8.79 MB·English

MONALISA 2.0 – Activity 1.3
Report on Maritime
Accidents

Document No: MONALISA 2 0_D4.4.1

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Disclaimer:

The sole responsibility of this publication lies with the author. The European Union is not
responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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Contents
0. Summary ....................................................................................................... 4
1. Existing databases. ...................................................................................... 5
2. Database. Queries. ....................................................................................... 6
2.1. Main database ........................................................................................... 7
2.2. Flag States ............................................................................................ 16
2.3. Ship flag-Accidents ............................................................................... 18
2.4. Queries. ................................................................................................ 20
3. Accidents chosen for further analysis ................................................... 102
3.1. Passenger ship casualties .................................................................. 103
3.1.1. COSTA CONCORDIA ................................................................. 105
3.1.2. SEWOL ....................................................................................... 107
3.1.3. DOÑA PAZ .................................................................................. 111
3.1.4. BULGARIA .................................................................................. 114
3.1.5. SPICE ISLANDER ....................................................................... 115
3.1.6. MV SHARIATPUR 1 .................................................................... 116
3.1.7. ESTONIA ..................................................................................... 117
3.2. Boats with immigrants on board .......................................................... 120
3.3. Non-passenger ship casualties ........................................................... 122
3.3.1. AEGEAN SEA ............................................................................. 122
3.3.2. AMOCO CADIZ ........................................................................... 124
3.3.3. ANDROS PATRIA ....................................................................... 126
3.3.4. BRAER ........................................................................................ 127
3.3.5. CASTILLO DE BELLVER ............................................................ 129
3.3.6. CASTOR ..................................................................................... 131
3.3.7. ERIKA .......................................................................................... 132
3.3.8. EXXON VALDEZ ......................................................................... 137
3.3.9. MSC FLAMINIA ........................................................................... 141
3.3.10. HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE ........................................... 144
3.3.11. MSC NAPOLI ............................................................................ 147
3.3.12. NEW FLAME ............................................................................. 152
3.3.13. OLIVA ........................................................................................ 156
3.3.14. PRESTIGE ................................................................................ 159
3.3.15. ROKIA DELMAS ....................................................................... 177
3.3.16. SEA EMPRESS ......................................................................... 180
3.3.17. SOLAR 1 ................................................................................... 190
3.3.18. STOLT VALOR .......................................................................... 192
3.3.19. TK BREMEN ............................................................................. 194
3.3.20. TORREY CANYON ................................................................... 198
3.3.21. URQUIOLA ................................................................................ 201
4. Conclusion. ............................................................................................... 203

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0. Summary

The present document is a report on maritime accidents based on a database carried out in the
frame of the Monalisa 2.0 project.

This report makes a summary of the most remarkable maritime accidents throughout history
based on the database elaborated with maritime accidents from 1900 to 2013 (annex to this
document).

This document intends to help users of the database to obtain the best of the tool as well as
making an analysis of some remarkable conclusions got from the database, such as location of
accidents by year.

A selection of remarkable accidents is carried out pointing out some of the details of the
accident. That selection is divided into three parts:

a) Passenger ship casualties.
b) Boats with immigrants on-board.
c) Non-passenger ship casualties.

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1. Existing databases.

In order to support what is reported in this document, a database of the accidents occurred from
1900 until 2013 has been elaborated.

The research carried out and the subsequent study of the database of marine accidents has been
made regarding the type of consequence of the casualty: loss of lives, pollution, serious injuries,
total loss of the ship, ship rendered unfit to proceed or ship remains fit to proceed; the causes:
less serious, serious or very serious; the type of ship: cargo ship, fishing vessel, passenger ship,
service ship, inland waterway vessel, recreational craft, navy ship, submersible, wig, others or
unknown. Among these types of ship, it has also been identified the type of load in case it is a
cargo ship, the type of fishing vessel it can be, etc., so that we have all the information possible
available.

There are also available data about date of the sinking or accident, coordinates of the place where
it happened, investigation reports elaborated and their dates, deadweight of the accident,
analysis made, IMO identification numbers of the vessels.
To elaborate this database, the information has been extracted from the Global Integrated
Shipping Information System (GISIS) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

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2. Database. Queries.

The database of the ship accidents has been elaborated in Access format, in order to ease
querying any fields contained in it to make a quick search of casualties determined by specific
parameters.
The database is very useful to elaborate statistics in order to avoid the possible causations and be
prepared for the necessary mitigations of future casualties.
In this database there are three data tables named as follows:
- “Main database”
- “Flag states”
- “Ship flag-Accidents”

A first explanation of these data tables is provided in the following paragraphs.

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2.1. Main database

The first one contains the most part of the information about the casualties, which includes the
fields:
IMO Reference Coordinates (seconds Long)
Number of ships involved Coordinates (E/W)
Name (Ship 1) Location
IMO number (Ship 1) Number of Investigation Reports
Name (Ship 2) Number of Analyses
IMO Number (Ship 2) Initial Event
Name (Ship 3) Summary of Events
IMO number (Ship 3) Ship Type
Name (Ship 4) Consequences (Loss of life)
IMO Number (Ship 4) Consequences (Pollution)
Flag State a Consequences (Serious injuries)
Flag State b Consequences (Total loss of the ship)
Flag State c Consequences (Ship rendered unfit to proceed)
Incident Date & Time Consequences (Ship remains fit to proceed)
Type of casualty Gross Tonnage
Coordinates (degrees Lat) Classification Society
Coordinates (minutes Lat) Deadweight
Coordinates (seconds Lat) Cargo
Coordinates (N/S) Persons Onboard
Coordinates (degrees Long) Investigation Report Date
Coordinates (minutes Long) Analysis Date

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Shot of the design view of the database, which shows some of the fields indicated previously1

1 The language of the program is per default in Spanish, meaning Nombre del campo: Field name; Tipo de
datos: data type, which can be text, number, autonumber, date/time, Yes/No, etc.
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This design view shows all the fields the current data table has and the type of data, but it gives
no information about the casualties. It would be useful only for a quick look of the fields, so the
user can question himself about which fields he believes are important for making a query, and
also make changes if necessary.

The database itself would be the following shots:

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