Three men lay more than a hundred yards from the thick torn metal that once covered the top forward ballast tank, they were dead. - In the gathering darkness, in the roughening seas around the ship, the bodies of four other men were being carried away...

She’s powerful, unpredictable and pushy. If you don’t keep a firm hold it could mean a rocky relationship gets very deadly.

When it comes to safety, unless everybody's on the same page avoidable tragedies will happen. Listen To ThePodcast When the anchor-handling tug supply vessel Bourbon Dolphin capsized it came at enormous cost.

It is still dark early on the morning of 30th March 2007 in Scalloway, Shetland as Norwegian Captain Oddne Remoy boards the Bourbon Dolphin for the first time. Bourbon Dolphin is less than a year old, painted in the distinctive green and white house colou

Owned by Odfjell Asia, operated by Ceres Hellic Shipping Enterprises and flagged in Singapore, Bow Mariner left New York at 0500 on February 28, 2004, 22 of her cargo tanks empty except for the vapour of Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether. The tanks were not inerted

90 minutes after Third Officer Lugen Ortilano sent that distress call, the 174 metre long chemical tanker Bow Mariner was 77 metres down on the bottom of the Atlantic, 53.5 nautical miles off the Virginia coast. Twenty one of her 27 crew were dead or dyin

If you don't look after your lifeboat It won't look after you

Bosun Jack was dead. His body lay under the worklights beside a pool of blood. The instrument of his death was a short distance away. One thing is certain, his killer still hunts seafarers.

The Case of the Silent Assassin has become a MAC classic confined space safety lesson. An excellent live action/CGI video version has been produced by IDESS Interactive Technologies. Ships are dangerous places for the badly trained, the unwary, the care

This podcast has a special place in MAC's heart - it was the very first one ever broadcast. At the time we did not have a video production capability or a recording studio so the sound quality may be least than ideal but the lessons remain very current.