Maritime Accident Case Studies

Course Outline

This awareness program is designed to heighten awareness to Human Factors and Human Error in Maritime Operations. The program contains 20 Maritime accident case studies (15 Large Vessels and 5 Super Yacht Accidents), where human error was the primary cause. 

It is important to learn from these errors or events, and make every effort to ensure the same disasters are not repeated. Each case study is analysed using Professor James Reason’s Swiss cheese Model.

Price: US$45

Target Group – All Seafarers

Duration – 1 Hour or at your own pace.

Case Study 1 MSC Herald of Free Enterprise – 6 March 1987

Case Study 2 Exxon Valdez – 24 March 1989

Case Study 3 Scandanavian Star – 6 April 1990

Case Study 4 Oceanos – 3 August 1991

Case Study 5 Estonia – 28 September 1994

Case Study 6 MV Le Joola – 26 September 2002 Gambia

Case Study 7 MS al-salam Boccaccio – 3 February 2006

Case Study 8 Princess of the Stars – 21 June 2008

Case Study 9 Spice Islander – 10 September 2011

Case Study 10 MSC Rena – October 2011

Case Study 11 Costa Concordia – 13 January 2012

Case Study 12 MV Dongfang zhi Xing – 1 June 2015

Case Study 13 Ulysse and Virginia – 7 October 2018

Case Study 14 MSC Opera – 2 June 2019

Super Yacht Accidents