A 24-year-old male crew member went overboard from MSC Cruises’ MSC Splendida in the early morning hours of Wednesday, September 14, 2022. At the time of the incident, the ship was cruising off the west coast of Calabria, the southernmost region of Italy’s mainland.
Man overboard alert was issued at approximately 4 a.m., and emergency teams onboard immediately went into action to stop the ship and deploy one of the ship’s lifeboats for search and rescue. Witnesses reported hearing calls for help from the water. Within about 40 minutes, the Brazilian-born crew member was successfully recovered, and the lifeboat returned safely to the ship.
According to Italian media reports, the 24-year-old crew member is a Brazilian national working as a dancer onboard. They said the crew member intentionally went overboard after arguing with his partner.
Odessa is the third largest city in Ukraine located in the south of the country, the administrative center of the Odessa region and the main naval base of the Ukrainian Navy.This city, standing on the shore of the Odessa Gulf of the Black Sea, is the largest commercial sea port of Ukraine.
The City Day of Odessa is celebrated on September 2. September 2, 1794, after the prayer and consecration of construction sites, the first piles were built in the foundation of the town. Celebrations usually last for several days, the main events take place on the first weekend of September.
Carnival Sunrise (formerly Carnival Triumph) is a Destiny-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She is sometimes referred to as the first of the Triumph class of cruise ships. Carnival Sunrise is currently homeported in Miami, Florida. Built by Fincantieri at its Monfalcone shipyard in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northern Italy, she was floated out on October 23, 1999, and christened by Madeleine Arison, wife of Micky Arison, the then-CEO (now Chairman of Carnival Corporation) of Carnival.
Carnival Sunrise is 893 feet 4 inches (272.3 m) long and has a beam of 116 feet 6 inches (35.5 m). Fully laden, she draws 27 feet 3 inches (8.3 m) of water. The vessel's gross tonnage, which is a measure of volume and not of weight, is 101,509.
Carnival Sunrise has a diesel-electric propulsion system in which the main generators provide electricity for all shipboard functions from propulsion motors to hotel systems such as air conditioning and lighting. Her power plant consists of six diesel generating sets, four 16-cylinder Wärtsilä-Sulzer 16ZAV40S and two 12-cylinder 12ZAV40S medium-speed diesel engines. Her two 17.6-megawatt electric propulsion motors and controllable pitch propellers give the ship a maximum speed of 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h; 25.9 mph) and a service speed of about 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). For manoeuvring at ports, Carnival Sunrise has six transverse thrusters. She was completed and entered service in 1999.
In 2019, Carnival Triumph docked in Cadiz, Spain to undergo a $200 million refurbishment. She was renamed Carnival Sunrise on completion of the refit. The ship was officially renamed by Kelly Arison, who is a daughter of Carnival Corporation Chairman Micky Arison. The ceremony took place on May 23 in New York.
Odessa is the third largest city in Ukraine located in the south of the country, the administrative center of the Odessa region and the main naval base of the Ukrainian Navy.This city, standing on the shore of the Odessa Gulf of the Black Sea, is the largest commercial sea port of Ukraine.
The City Day of Odessa is celebrated on September 2. September 2, 1794, after the prayer and consecration of construction sites, the first piles were built in the foundation of the town. Celebrations usually last for several days, the main events take place on the first weekend of September.
Carnival Fantasy was a cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She was the first ship of fantasy class vessels. She was built by Kværner Masa-Yards at its Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland, she was floated out on December 9, 1988, completed on January 27, 1990 and formally named on March 1, 1990, as Fantasy by Tellervo Koivisto, wife of the then President of Finland, Mauno Koivisto. During 2007, in common with all of her Fantasy-class sisters, she had the prefix "Carnival" added to her name.
In July 2020, Carnival Corporation & plc confirmed that it had sold Carnival Fantasy for scrap. She was beached in Aliağa, Turkey for scrap on July 29, 2020. A report on August 26, 2020 indicated that the scrapping process had begun. Scrapping was completed in September 2021.
Five people lost their lives on Saturday in New Zealand after a small charter boat they were on capsized, police have said, possibly after the vessel collided with a whale. Another six individuals who were on the boat were rescued.
The authorities mentioned that the 8.5-meter boat overturned when it was close to the Island town of Kaikōura in the South. Police said they were continuing to inspect the actual cause of the accident.
Cargo vessel Lady Zehma loaded with grains from Ukraine, sailing for Istanbul, ran aground in the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey. The incident occurred at around 2100 LT on 1st sept.
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Lady Zehma had a rudder failure while transiting Bosphorus Strait, ran aground around 40 meters off Bebek Bay in Istanbul Strait after drifting for meters in Bosphorous.
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According to government officials, Lady Zehma is one of the six vessels with agricultural products that left Ukrainian ports on August 30. After the incident that caused great panic, Coastal Safety rescue team boarded the vessel and reviewed the situation.
While the rescue efforts of the teams continue, the Bosphorus strait traffic was temporarily suspended. The vessel was towed by Coastal Rescue team’s tugboats to a safe anchorage in Marmara Sea and the Bosphorus opened for ship traffic.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India's first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on 2nd Sept 2022, that put India into a select league of countries which manufacture large aircraft carriers with indigenous technology.
It has reportedly been built at a cost of about 200bn Indian rupees at Cochin shipyard. The 262m long and 62m wide carrier displaces approximately 43000T when fully loaded, having a maximum speed of 28 knots with endurance of 7500NM. It has the capacity to hold 30 aircraft, including Mig-29K fighter jets, besides the domestically manufactured Advanced Light Helicopters (ALH).
An oil tanker ran aground on 31st Aug 2022, Wednesday in Egypt’s Suez Canal briefly blocking traffic in the global waterway before it was freed.
The Singapore flagged vessel Affinity V, drifted and obstructed the canal’s south section while travelling around 1700 GMT in a south convoy of vessels.
Five of the Suez Canal authority’s tug boats managed to get the vessel floating again in a coordinated operation five hours later the incident. Technical failure in the vessel’s steering mechanism caused it to hit the bank of the canal, and that navigation for other ships passing through the canal had returned to normal.
The 114070 Tons tanker Affinity V was built in 2016 with a length of 252.26 meters and a width of 45.04 meters and her current draught is reported to be 11.2 meters. She dropped anchor after transiting the canal at Suez south anchorage for further investigations and inspections.
The Director General of Shipping has issued a circular (NT Exam Circular No. 13 of 2022) dated on 16.06.2022, to provide Clarification regarding booking and a appearing in competency examinations of the nautical discipline.
Online portal for the nautical grade competency examination will generally be opened on 16th of every month and will be closed on five calendar days before the commencement of the examination schedule of the following month.
Fresh candidates are required to book all subjects of the written examination of all functions of that particular grade during the first attempt.
Fresh candidates (1st attempt), appearing/appeared in written exams and waiting for results are allowed to book for oral examination in the same month or the next month, provided they have completed all the required modular courses.
For booking oral exam of a particular function, he/she has to clear all the written papers of that particular function.
As per existing practice, candidate shall ensure minimum of one month gap between two consecutive attempts of written / oral examinations.
Candidates who have passed all the written papers of all the functions of the particular grade are eligible to book and appear for oral examination every month.
If any candidate due to some reason, is absent in the examination in a particular month (he/she may be allowed to book and appear in the next consecutive month.
Signal examination of 2nd mate (FG) & NWKO (NCV) grade have two components, i.e, signal visual and signal oral. Signal Oral is conducted along with the navigational oral examination (Function 1).
Candidates booking for Navigation function orals are allowed to appear for Signal visual examination of that month automatically.
Candidate who wish to appear only for signal visual examination can make booking manually as per existing practice and send the booking and payment details to respective MMD through email.
Candidates who have passed the signal examination but have failed the function 1 oral exam, the candidate may re-book through the exiting online process, including the payment of the function 1 oral exam fee.
If a candidate fails the signal visual examination, the candidate needs to continue to re-book the signal exam at the respective MMD by the exiting manual process.
Click here to read DGS Circular NT Exam Circular No. 13 of 2022
