A Bahamas Maritime Authority report has examined how a bunker surveyor drowned on 17 January 2026 while stepping from a bulk carrier’s accommodation ladder to a service boat in Singapore’s Eastern Bunkering C anchorage. It found unsafe transfer conditions, a loose lifejacket, no recovery gear and too many overlapping operations.
A Bahamas Maritime Authority investigation has found that an ordinary seaman died after falling through a gap between open hatch covers into a cargo hold on a Bahamas-flagged bulk carrier in the Caribbean Sea. He had left the protected catwalk, and fall protection was available but not used.
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