IMCASafety Flash
Only a centimetre – an emergency exit hatch blocked by mooring ropes
- Publisher
- IMCA · International Marine Contractors Association
- Type
- Safety Flash
- Reference
- IMCA SF 12/21
- Date
- Themes
- Evacuation, Escape and RescueVessel and Mooring
Summary
On a vessel alongside in port, an emergency exit hatch was found to be blocked. A team making a daily inspection tour round the vessel found that they could not open an emergency exit hatch providing egress from the engine room to deck on the port side at the stern.
IMCA SF 12/21. Themes: evacuation, escape and rescue, vessel and mooring.
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