Safety Flashes

IMCA has received a report of an incident wherein a ‘banana sheave’ roller weighing 4.5kg came loose during operations. It fell some 24 metres from the derrick and hit the […]

An incident has been brought to our attention wherein flooding started in the engine room of a ship. This occurred during preparation for cleaning of a sea water inlet filter. […]

IMCA has been advised of a near-miss during diving operations involving the cam lock on a KMB17 divers helmet. The diver entered the water and stopped at a depth of […]

Safety flash 10/05 reported on a recent Engine room fire. It was noted in that safety flash that the probable cause of the fire was spraying of leaking hydraulic oil […]

A member has reported a near-miss incident that occurred during a dual crane lift of a stinger being offloaded from a barge. Two cranes were required to unload a stinger […]

IMCA has received a report of a vessel losing one anchor and four lengths of chain cable during anchor handling. During the vessel’s previous dry docking, a number of chain […]

IMCA has received a report of an incident wherein during a repair job in a pre-load tank (ballast tank) onboard an oil rig at a repair yard, an explosion occurred […]

IMCA has received a report of an engine room fire. The master and crew handled the critical situation swiftly by releasing carbon dioxide. The fire was brought under control, but […]

A member has reported a serious crane wire failure. A night-time recovery of a work-class ROV (weight 4.75 Te) was taking place onto a Class 2 DP survey vessel using […]

A member has reported a serious injury that occurred during crane operations on a third party vessel. The vessel had been released from towing a flexible riser and the tow-wire […]

A member has reported that it has experienced several failures of KM B17 side block non-return valves which have had little or no in-water service. To date, defects have been […]

A member has reported the following issue discovered during a ‘routine’ inspection prior to the commencement of saturation diving activities using a bottom-mating system. The bell mating screws and clamp […]

IMCA has received the attached caution notice from Divex, which refers to modifications made to the ‘Electric Gasmizer’ divers gas recovery systems.

A member has reported an incident that occurred during surface diving operations offshore of Western Australia, whereby a diver was apparently stung by a Carukia barnesi jellyfish, which led the […]

We have been passed the attached product information bulletin relating to Kongsberg transponder models RPT316, RPT319 and RPT324 and spare end cap assemblies which we have been asked to bring […]

A member has reported an incident which resulted in a work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) free-falling approximately 10 metres into the sea during a recovery operation. No injuries occurred and […]

A member has reported a near-miss that occurred during diving operations. A diver’s helmet – a Kirby Morgan Superlite 17B – flooded during the dive. Fortunately the diver was only […]

A member has reported an incident whereby which a diver experienced an oxygen leak from his cutting torch whilst on the seabed in around 27 msw. The leak came out […]

An IMCA member has reported two recent injuries caused by the use of portable hand grinders. The first injury was due to the grinder wheel binding onto the weld being […]

We have received the attached Caution Notice from Kirby Morgan relating to inconsistency in regulator assemblies (product number 505-069) that were manufactured between 1 January and 1 March 2005, of […]