Case Study: Pacific Endeavor Fatal Accident

On April 15, 1912 at 11:40 P.M. the Titanic collided with an iceberg and by 2:20 A.M. it was at the bottom of the ocean; over 1,500 people died. The massive loss of life was a shock to the world. The “unsinkable” ship had sunk. Despite the Titanic’s claims about being “unsinkable” and completely safe, many avoidable things led to the immense number of fatalities, such as the shortage of lifeboats, lowered bulkheads, and the lack of binoculars. Bruce Ismay, the designer of the Titanic and director of Whitestar line, often chose the comfort of his passengers over their safety. While Ismay was designing the Titanic he thought that the deck was too cluttered so he decided to keep only a third of the lifeboats needed to save all of the passengers

The explosion ripped through a port side berthing compartment of the construction and repair gangs, killing and wounding many of the men while they slept. The repair crews fought hard and were able to save the ship, despite suffering heavy casualties in the explosion.

Following a missed approach because of a suspected nose gear malfunction, the aircraft climbed to 2, 000 feet mean sea level and proceeded on a westerly heading. The three flight crewmembers and a jumpseat occupant became engrossed in the malfunction.

In the fall semester of 2012, four teenagers at the high school I attend died tragically in automobile accidents. One of the students who lost their life was my cousin Acasia Lee. She neglected to wear her seatbelt while operating her vehicle and she died because she did not have it on.

Investigation suggested that an electrical arc had been produced in the lower equipment bay beneath Grissom’s couch. Flames fed by the pure oxygen atmosphere spread through flammable materials in the cockpit. The astronauts tried to unbolt the inward-opening hatches but had difficulty. The air pressure within the cabin was high and opening the hatches were impossible.

Prior to the disaster, the company had been facing a financial crisis for many years because the sale of pesticides had been fallen (Joseph, Kaszniak and Long 2005, p. 544). Due to the budget cuts, many plant operators received insufficient training on operations and safety awareness (Mannan 2012, p. 2649). As shown in Figure 1, there was a decrease in the length of training programmes for plant operators from 18 months in 1975 to only one month in December 1984 (Chouhan 2005, p. 207). Therefore, with a lack of the knowledge of runaway reactions occurring in the storage tank when the accident happened, many workers could not immediately take any emergency action to lessen the risk of the MIC escape from the storage tank (Chouhan 2005, p. 207). To connect the tank with another

On August 18, 2015, a fire broke out in the engine room of the dredger Arco Avon. This vessel was in the process of loading sand roughly 12 miles off Great Yarmouth, UK when a fire broke out in the engine room. The fire was started when the third engineer attempted to repair a failed fuel pipe that was under pressure. This high-pressure fuel in the pipe ignited and broke out into the rest of the engine room and was then suppressed by the fixed CO2 system. The fire aboard the Arco Avon resulted in one death, Anthony Jones, the third engineer. Throughout the investigation, it was determined that there were many shortcomings within the engineering department including, lack of communication, poor risk assessment, and lack of work permits.

January 2012, I was the first responder to a CH-47F Chinook crash south of Kandahar, Afghanistan. CW4 Baker and myself where conducting dust qualification during, so I could be fully mission qualified. While conducting a landing a call came over the radio from CW2 Rex Raffelson to the tower. Rex stated that he had just crashed and that they needed rescue personnel to come. Sam and myself were in the area and had a general location of where Rex was conducting his training, so we took off to locate them. It took us several minutes to locate them due to poor visibility that night. It was a scary feeling when we approached the crash site. To see an aircraft as big a CH-47F on its side at the bottom of a sand hill was surreal. Sam had to take the

Cause: O-ring failed which caused the death of seven people aboard due to the burning gas reaching the fuel tank.

When analyzing this disaster the first thing to consider is the engineer’s design of the Titanic. The Titanic was employing many new and innovative designs that were believed to make the Titanic the safest ship ever built at that time. The engineer’s of the vessel made claims that the Titanic was “unsinkable” and that “even in the worst possible accident at sea, the ship should have stayed afloat for two to three days.” One of the features that lead them to this claim was the 16 watertight compartments in the hull of the ship. The way they were designed allowed for up to four compartments to be breached and they ship would still carry

This catalysed a string of errors, with the Captain falsely assuming that the motor had most likely seized, trying to push the breakers back in to no avail nine minutes after they tripped. The situation began to deteriorate further, with a passenger situated near the aft lavatory noting a burning smell followed by a flight attendant discovering smoke and discharging a fire extinguisher into the lavatory, noting no flames.

Following the in-flight disintegration of the Kanishka, most of the aircraft came to rest on the ocean floor almost 7,000 feet below the surface. During the accident investigation that followed, the submerged wreckage was surveyed, photographed and videotaped, and pieces were recovered off the ocean floor. Floating wreckage was also recovered and examined. Each piece was given a unique number called a “target”. The RCMP returned to the crash site for two subsequent salvage operations in 1989 and 1991 during which further underwater video footage was captured and further wreckage recovered. Of the 465 targets observed on the ocean floor, 159 were positively identified as aircraft components or as coming from particular parts

I was going down the trail with my ex best friend and his uncle was infront and the friend was in the back it was getting cold and i wanted to get home so i was getting in a hurry. So i came around a corner and there it was on almost a straight away and a stump on the side of the trail.

Carnival Cruise Line is one of the best cruise brands, but one of its ship faced severe voyage challenge due to the fire on its largest vessel splendor weigh 113,000 ton and 952 feet long. On the early morning, November 8, 2010, thick smoke and smell was reported by the ship crews and the guests, later on inspection, the smell was reported to come from the engine room, the most-critical part for any ship. The fire accompanied with electrical failure, and all other contingency arrangements catastrophically failed, and that resulted in complete blackout in the ship. The probable cause of the fire was ignition in the diesel generator, which spread. Usually the seizure of one engine does not result in complete disability of ship propulsion; however, this incident resulted in overall failure of propulsion and movement in the ship when the ship was 200 miles away from the coast of San Diego, dead in the water.

Negligence is one of the reasons why accidents happen onboard. Regarding Ava Payagua, the crew did not take into account the possible danger or risks that they might do if they operate a ship which is in bad condition. Before sailing, they must inspect the ship if there are faulty equipments. They should also consider the officers who will take charge in navigating, to navigate a ship, one must have proper training and skills to avoid collision and they should also know all the rules at sea to prevent accidents like collision, capsizing and sinking. In the collision that happened, the only vessel that was damaged was the freighter Rio Turbio. The tug Ava Payagua suffered no damaged after it collided. Usually when collision occurs, both sides suffer from great casualty but in the case of Rio Turbio and Ava Payagua, only one suffered. It is because both vessels are small vessels and we should also consider that the other vessel was a tug which is used to pushing larger vessels to