Text Box:  
           Commercial Vessel Safety

Text Box: Towing Vessels
 
TOWING VESSEL INSPECTION
 
P.L. 108-293 Coast Guard & Maritime Transportation Act of 2004
       (See Sec. 415 on page 21)
 
Conference Report: Coast Guard & Maritime Transportation Act of  2004      
       (See Sec. 415 on page 84)
 
Text of Sec. 415 and text of Conference Report on Sec. 415
 
 TOWING VESSEL INSPECTION DOCKET
      (Read responses to questions on inspection)
 
 SJC MALLARD BAY DECISION
 
 UNINSPECTED TOWING VESSELS
     An Analysis of the Historical and Contemporary 
     Issue of Their Regulation
Prepared By: Thomas A. Allegretti *, Assistant to the Director, Department  
of Inland Water Activities, Transportation Institute, Washington, D.C. 1980
     
* Now President & CEO of the American Waterways Operators (AWO)
 
 REPORT OF THE COAST GUARD-AWO QUALITY ACTION TEAM
ON TOWING VESSEL CREW FATALITIES, - JULY, 26 1996
 
HEADING FOR DISASTER?
Tugboats move thousand of tons of oil and hazardous materials through the Cape Cod Canal each year. 
Article, Cape Cod Times, by Kevin Dennehy, 2 January 2000. 
 
 
CASUALTIES
 
FRANK PALLADINO (1994)
     
NORTH CAPE / SANDIA (1996)
 
ALLISION BETWEEN THE BARGE TOW OF THE M/V BROWN WATER V
AND THE QUEEN ISABELLA CAUSEWAY BRIDGE.
SEPT 15, 2001, PORT ISABEL, TEXAS. 
MULTIPLE LOSS OF LIFE. 
 
 
 

 

 

Text Box: PASSENGER VESSELS
OUT-OF-THE-WATER SURVIVAL CRAFT
 
REPORT ON Small Passenger Vessel Safety
Report to Congress 2005  by U.S. Coast Guard, March 2005
                 (P.L. 108-293 Sec. 624)
 
 Passenger Safety on Vessels Under 100Gross Tons - 
Review of Injuries and Fatalities, Calendar Years 1992-2003 
Report by the U.S. Coast Guard, August 2004
 
UPV NPRM   THOUGHTS on Survival Craft on UNINSPECTED 
                           PASSENGER VESSELS / Letter / 2000 / rch
 
 
UPV FINAL RULE  May 15, 2002 (Text document)
 
UPV FINAL RULE  May 15, 2002 (.pdf file)
 
COLD WATER Q & A / 1998
 
T-BOAT STUDY / U.S.C.G. / R.L. Markle / 1991                          
A STUDY OF LIFESAVING SYSTEMS FOR SMALL PASSENGER VESSELS            
 
EXPOSURE SUITS ON CERTAIN INSPECTED VESSELS
         Discussion of Cold Water                          
         Report to Congress by U.S.C.G. (mid-1980s)                                                                                                                                                                           
SURVIVAL IN COLD WATERS 
       Report prepared for Transport Canada
       Dr. C. J. Brooks / 2001
 
TITANIC Revisited /1998 / rch
 
 
When the bow breaks Lifeboats may not 
   have room for everyone /  USA Today 1999 G. Stoller
 
 
Passengers outnumber lifeboats and rafts 
   USA Today 1999 [Sidebar] G. Stoller
 
SIX-PACK CHECK LIST 
     Check list of requirements for UPVs
 
 
 
 
 
 
CASUALTIES
 
GENERAL SLOCUM Report of Presidential Commission 
 
The General Slocum & Little Germany /
 
      New York Historical Society 
 
YARMOUTH CASTLE (1965)
 
MV COMET (1973)
 
MARY JANE (1986)
 
FISH-N-FOOL (1987)
 
EL TORO (1993)
 
DUKW MISS MAJESTIC (1999)
 
LADY D - BALTIMORE HARBOR (2004)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

OFF SOUNDINGS

MARINE SAFETY

FISHING VESSEL SAFETY

FISHING VESSEL DIGEST

COMMERCIAL VESSEL SAFETY