IMCASafety Flash
Bolt failures on Lawson ROV launch and recovery systems
- Publisher
- IMCA · International Marine Contractors Association
- Type
- Safety Flash
- Reference
- IMCA SF 03/09
- Date
- Themes
- Dropped ObjectsMachinery and EquipmentStructural and Asset Integrity
Summary
Members are alerted to the attached safety flash from Lawson Engineers Ltd, manufacturers of launch and recovery systems, covering a recent failure of bolts in a 3000m launch and recovery system which allowed a latched-in tether management system (TMS) and ROV to fall to the deck.
IMCA SF 03/09. Themes: dropped objects, machinery and equipment, structural and asset integrity.
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