After loading a cargo of pipe, tools, drill water, diesel fuel oil, and various other supplies, the offshore supply vessel M/V SABINE SEAHORSE departed Intracoastal City, Louisiana about 2200 on January 29, 1978 for South Marsh Island block 128 in the Gulf of Mexico. By 0030 on January 31, the vessel was secured starboard side to Pennzoil's Platform A in block 128. The vessel was docked at the platform's east side boat landing, which was fitted with four docking bumpers. The fenders were missing from the bumper near the vessel's engineroom, and the bumper was not attached to its underwater support. The SABINE SEAHORSE struck the bumper hard while redocking after a mooring line broke. The vessel's wing compartments, engineroom, and forward passageway flooded, and the SABINE SEAHORSE sank about 0600. No persons died, but the vessel, valued at $220,000, was lost. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the breaching of the vessel's hull by a damaged docking bumper's lower support, which led to flooding of the vessel's engineroom, wing compartments, and forward passageway due to the failure of the crew to secure the engineroom's watertight doors.


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    Titel :

    Marine Accident Report, Sinking of the Offshore Supply Vessel M/V SABINE SEAHORSE in the Gulf of Mexico, January 31, 1978


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1979


    Format / Umfang :

    14 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch