Tagle followed Captain Kavaoras, Chief Engineer Anasthasiou and the rest of the group to the winch deck on the starboard side. For a moment he covered his eyes. When he looked up, the rest had gone over the side.

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.

In this week’s SafeSpace Replay: A ship filled with wheat, a seafarer dead in his cabin, fumigants in the holds but the holds were sealed. Weren’t they? You might not smell trouble but you might see it coming,

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 on...

A young ambitious officer with the world of command ahead of him but he forgot the golden rule: when you go into a trap, make sure you've got two pairs of eyes.

Three men lay dead in the anchor locker. What they'd needed to live was all around them except in one place: the air they once breathed.

A busy cruise liner in port, a safety management audit, a class society survey and a second bosun who doesn’t notice that his job has changed. The Silent Assassin goes to work. Again. Listen To The Podcast We’ll call him Lito.

You might not smell trouble but you might see it coming, even if it wears a mask Listen To The Podcast We’ll call him Danek, not his real name but he was a real person, a Polish able seaman and one of nine crew aboard the 30 years old 81 metre general ...

When it comes to safe navigation, if you don't ask a question right you're not asking the right question and you won't get the right answer.

One of the newest artifacts in London’s oldest church is a ship’s bell. The lessons of the British Trent are still relevant today.