Comments from the report: This is a positive report which highlights how familiarity of Key DP Personnel with the vessels Critical DP systems can lead to a successful outcome following […]
DP Event Bulletins
DP station keeping event bulletins enhance the traditional reporting and analysis of dynamic positioning station keeping events and incidents. They ensure that the industry is provided with prompt feedback, including anonymous factual case studies of events reported to IMCA.
Individual DP events are available individually online, tagged and searchable, while the traditional PDF collections are also available for download.
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DP Events
Action Error – Was an ASOG in Place?
Considerations of the IMCA Marine DP Committee from the above event: This was a simple case of Key DP personnel not being included in the ASOG process, the ASOG should […]
Case study – DPO certification deception
Case narrative A new senior DPO had been appointed to a DP equipment class 2 vessel via a crewing agent. It was found after joining that his experience and certification […]
Good practice following system self-test alarm – DP observation
Comments from the report: The error was traced to a serial interface module for DP Controller A and confirmed that the red error lamp on this module was illuminated. Whilst […]
A retrofitted capacitor caused a bow thruster frequency drive to overheat – DP observation
Comments from the report: A wrongly installed extra capacitor at the bow thruster frequency drive caused overheating of this equipment. The extra capacitor was installed by the electrical designer and […]
High voltage breaker trip – DP observation
Comments: Investigation started at the breaker for DG No. 5 in the port switchgear room. The breaker showed tripped and there was a fault present on the auto voltage regulator (AVR). DG No. 5 […]
Rip tide presents problems – DP observation
Comments It was a single rip tide and when it had passed the vessel was set up back in automatic position mode. There was clear evidence that a degraded performance […]
Bad connection causes loss of DGNSS – DP observation
Comments After all the checking, it was found that there was water ingress at the L-Band connector to the antenna on the mast. This was dried and cleaned. The connectors […]
Cooling pipe leak threatens main switchboard – DP observation
Comments: A failure of a plug (old decommissioned cooling line for fridge compressors) on seawater cooling pipe for the Ac compressors resulted in flooding in the incinerator room (the water […]
Procedures for ploughing using DP discussed – DP observation
Comments: The report concluded that the DPO was conducting too many concurrent tasks so that he did not sufficiently monitor the vessel speed during the time the vessel was being […]
Unintentional deselection of a DP control function
Considerations from the above event: This event highlights the possible consequences of deselecting critical DP system buttons. Significant changes to any system should not be made during critical phases of […]
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