Marine Occurrence report 232 - Australian Transport Safety Bureau

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ATSB TRANSPORT SAFETY INVESTIGATION REPORT Marine Occurrence Investigation No. 232 Final Independent investigation into the breakaway and grounding of the Hong Kong registered bulk carrier Creciente at Port Hedland, Western Australia 12 September 2006 Released in accordance with section 25 of the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003
Published by: Australian Transport Safety Bureau Postal address: PO Box 967, Civic Square ACT 2608 Office location: 15 Mort Street, Canberra City, Australian Capital Territory Telephone: 1800 621 372; from overseas + 61 2 6274 6590 Accident and serious incident notification: 1800 011 034 (24 hours) Facsimile: 02 6274 6474; from overseas + 61 2 6274 6474 E-mail: atsbinfo@atsb.gov.au Internet: www.atsb.gov.au © Commonwealth of Australia 2008. This work is copyright. In the interests of enhancing the value of the information contained in this publication you may copy, download, display, print, reproduce and distribute this material in unaltered form (retaining this notice). However, copyright in the material obtained from non- Commonwealth agencies, private individuals or organisations, belongs to those agencies, individuals or organisations. Where you want to use their material you will need to contact them directly. Subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968, you must not make any other use of the material in this publication unless you have the permission of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau. Please direct requests for further information or authorisation to: Commonwealth Copyright Administration, Copyright Law Branch Attorney-General’s Department Robert Garran Offices National Circuit Barton ACT 2600 www.ag.gov.au/cca ISBN and formal report title: see ‘Document retrieval information’ on page v - ii -
Page 4 and 5: CONTENTS DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL INFORMA
Page 6 and 7: DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL INFORMATION Repo
Page 8 and 9: THE AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT SAFETY BUR
Page 10 and 11: ATSB INVESTIGATION REPORT TERMINOLO
Page 12 and 13: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On 8 September 20
Page 14 and 15: 1 FACTUAL INFORMATION 1.1 Creciente
Page 16 and 17: Each mooring winch consists of two
Page 18 and 19: 1.2.1 Tidal flow A drying sand spit
Page 20 and 21: Figure 7: Normal mooring arrangemen
Page 22 and 23: The second mate walked aft, along t
Page 24 and 25: Figure 10: Creciente aground in Por
Page 26 and 27: 2 ANALYSIS 2.1 Evidence On 15 and 1
Page 28 and 29: holding capacity of the ship’s wi
Page 30 and 31: ake’s strongest holding direction
Page 32 and 33: move off the wharf and this resulte
Page 34 and 35: The spring tides in Port Hedland ar
Page 36 and 37: Figure 16: Port Hedland hydrographi
Page 38 and 39: While the port emergency plan did n
Page 40 and 41: 3 FINDINGS 3.1 Context At about 024
Page 42 and 43: 4 SAFETY ACTIONS 4.1 Safety action
Page 44 and 45: APPENDIX A: EVENTS AND CONDITIONS -
Page 46 and 47: APPENDIX B: SHIP INFORMATION Crecie
Page 48 and 49: APPENDIX C: SOURCES AND SUBMISSIONS

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