SAFE T Y
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Final Dutch report into fatalities due to wood rot on traditional craft due shortly
The Dutch Safety Board says its final report into another fatal marine accident involving wood rot on a traditional craft is due to be issued shortly. The board initiated an investigation last year after a fatal incident on 31 August 2022, on a historic sailing ship from Harlingen, which claimed the life of a person on the deck when the vessel’s boom broke.
The board’s “follow-up investigation” on this incident set out to examine “to what extent lessons can be learned, and what is needed to prevent these types of accidents in the future”. It says that “the inspection phase of the investigation has been completed”.
“The comments received from the parties involved on the draft report have been incorporated. The final report will be adopted shortly and is expected to be published in the foreseeable future,” the board said.
The Dutch Safety Board has previously investigated two previous cases. A total of four people died in incidents occurring on 21 August 2016 and on 20 March 2019, when part of the mast broke off and landed on individuals. “In both cases, part of the mast broke off because it was affected by wood rot,” the board said. In the 2016 incident, a wooden mast that broke suddenly on a Dutch historic sailing ship and killed three people on its deck had been rotting for at least four years beforehand, the board found.
The investigation report recounted how the captain of the historic sailing ship the Amicitia was just about to turn his ship into the port of Harlingen, after a week’s sailing on the Wadden Sea, when “catastrophe struck”. The three people on the foredeck did not survive the accident, which the safety board has traced to wood rot. This was caused by water penetrating the mast which could not drain out again and was trapped.
In this case, it says there was “no maintenance plan for the mast in question, and it was not inspected periodically”. “This meant that changes and vulnerable spots were not identified. Because the captain himself did not have the relevant expertise, he relied on the maintenance personnel he engaged. However, they did not have the necessary specific expertise concerning wooden masts either,” the report says.
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