Marine Safety in Victoria Report 2007-2008 (PDF, 1.3 MB, 72 pp.)

4. Results: hire/drive vessel incidents
(2007/8)
4.1 Frequency
There were 8 marine incidents involving a hire/drive vessel recorded on the MIR for the 12-month period
July 2007 to June 2008 (Figure 3).
Figure 3 Trend in hire-drive vessel incidents by year, Marine Incident
Reporting system 1999/2000 to 2007/8
20
18
16
14
14
Frequency
12
10
8
8
8
6
4
2
0
2
3
3
199900 200001 200102 200203 200304 200405 200506 200607 200708
Financial year
1
5
2
Source: Marine Incident Reporting system July 1999 to June 2008
Note: Data for 2001/2 were incomplete, estimated frequencies (based on average frequency for same months in previous year) were
used for September and October 2001
4.2 Incident severity
There was no damage in 6 hire/drive incidents (75%), damage to property only in one incident (12.5%) and
other vessel damage in one incident (12.5%).
4.3 Major causes (types) of incidents
Five incidents were due to grounding-unintentional (63%), one was due to a disablement (12.5%), one was
an onboard incident-crushing/pinching (12.5%) and in one case the type of incident was undefined.
4.4 Vessel and occupant details
All were single vessel incidents. Five vessels had passengers on board at the time of the incident (between
1 and 3).
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