The year 2011
On 13th January 2012, Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio. This tore open a 50 metre gash on the port side of her hull, which soon flooded parts of the engine room, cutting power from the engines and ship services. With water flooding in and the ship listing, she drifted back towards the island and grounded near shore, then rolled onto her starboard side. The evacuation took over six hours and of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 32 died - an accident that should never have occurred. Nick Sloane HonFIIMS led the group that was instrumental is righting and salvaging the vessel, a precision assignment that took months of planning and work to complete successfully.
Capt Satish Anand took up the Institute’s Presidency in 2012 and hosted a successful event in December that year in Chennai titled ‘Professionalism, Training and Education’.
The year 2013
Early 2013 saw IIMS working with Wood Group Integrity Management (as it was then) to launch a new standard for those involved in inspecting subsea thermal insulation systems called the International Registered Marine Insulation Inspector scheme. Peter Morgan led the early development of the programme and despite the oil and gas downturn in the mid- 2010s (which saw the scheme hibernate) it is making a welcome return now in the 2020s.
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The Report Magazine published an article in May 2013 by William Kremer who posed the question “How much bigger can container ships get?” He wrote the article as the Triple E Class vessels, capable of carrying 18,000 TEU, came on-stream. Seven years later we know the answer – much bigger!
Two of the industry’s heavyweights became one with the formation of the DNV GL Group, which became operational on 12th September 2013 after the merger of DNV and GL.
Late in 2013, the IIMS UAE Branch ran an eventful conference at Dubai Marine, Beach Resort & Spa entitled ‘Marine, Offshore Insurance and Claims’.
The December 2013 Report Magazine carried two fascinating articles. Capt Andy Cross, (Past IIMS President), had completed 10,000 miles at the time of publication aboard Invest Africa as part of the Clipper Round the World Race series. As he said, “Only another 30,000 miles to go - not bad for an old fart like me at 66.” That same issue carried a report written by Capt Peter Lambert and Milind Tambe following the Institute’s ground-breaking visit to the shipbreaking yards of Alang in India.
Fast forward one year to 2011 which saw the opening of the IIMS Australia Branch headed up by Adam Brancher (Chairman) and Capt Peter Lambert (Regional Director). Sadly, the branch was not set to see the decade out.
The first major ferry disaster of the decade occurred on 10th September 2011 when MV Spice Islander I, a passenger ferry carrying over 2,000 passengers, sank off the coast of Zanzibar. The ferry was travelling between Unguja and Pemba when it capsized. Early estimates put the death toll at around 200, but a report published by the Tanzanian government in January 2012 claimed that over 1,500 people had perished.
The year 2012
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