VANCOUVER — The chair of Canada's Transportation Safety Board says it was luck rather than preparedness that helped in putting out a fire on a cargo ship off Vancouver Island's coast in October 2021.
VANCOUVER — The chair of Canada's Transportation Safety Board says it was luck rather than preparedness that helped in putting out a fire on a cargo ship off Vancouver Island's coast in October 2021.
The safety board report says that while the federal government is working on a number of potential improvements, those are years away and meanwhile gaps in Canada's preparedness for marine emergencies could pose a risk to vessels, the environment, and the health and safety of the public. In the case of the Zim Kingston, because the ship travelled frequently in American waters, it did have a plan and was able to call on two"foreign flagged" vessels with firefighting capabilities to help, said senior investigator Étienne Séguin-Bertrand.
“Not only is it difficult to predict exactly when a parametric rolling event will occur, but once extreme rolling starts, it may not be possible to stop the dangerous motions before negative consequences occur, such as container loss,” the report says. The report says international guidance for addressing the risk of parametric rolling has not been updated in 17 years, and it doesn’t offer policies, procedures, training, tools, or services that might help.
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