A crew member reportedly went overboard from the MSC Musica crusing from Italy final Monday night, in response to the favored Cruise Radio fan web page which asserts that the unidentified man “jumped.” The MSC ship was crusing within the Mediterranean Sea after departing from the port of Civitavecchia and heading to Genoa.
Cruise Radio doesn’t consult with any eye-witness accounts or surveillance video or anybody at MSC staff as a supply for the proposition that the MSC worker “jumped,” neither is there any indication precisely when the crew member went overboard or the time it took to provoke a search.
Two days after the crew member went overboard, Cruise Radio obtained a quote from MSC Cruises saying that it allegedly “responded promptly” to the incident and its “man overboard process” was allegedly “instantly initiated.” MSC didn’t launch any particulars relating to the overboard incident, no description of how its worker went overboard, when it occurred, or when the cruise ship initiated its unspecified “man overboard process” and started its search and rescue efforts.
Cruise Radio posted a picture of the Automated Data System (AIS) information exhibiting the trail of the MSC Musica‘s path when it initiated the seek for its overboard worker.
The AIS picture exhibits the MSC Musica primarily taking two u-turns after which continuing on towards Genoa. The ship clearly didn’t take a prolonged or exhaustive seek for the lacking worker.
MSC advised Cruise Radio on Wednesday that “in cooperation with the native authorities, a search and rescue operation was launched with the help of a rescue helicopter and a number of patrol boats. At this current time, the search remains to be ongoing.”
It might be extremely uncommon if the native Italian coast guard was nonetheless conducting search efforts some 36 hours after the MSC worker went into the water, as MSC claims and as Cruise Radio reviews.
Though there isn’t any supply cited for the declare that the crew member jumped, it’s in actual fact the probably rationalization when a ship worker goes overboard. Not like cruise passengers who sometimes go overboard after consuming extreme alcohol, most crew members who turn out to be lacking from cruise ships determine to finish their lives as a result of lengthy hours, onerous work, prolonged contracts away from family members and members of the family, and the absence of shipboard psychological assist.
That is the eighth particular person overboard from a MSC cruise ship in lower than the final seven months. In our view, MSC by no means “instantly” initiated search and rescue procedures or responded “promptly” to an overboard crew member or visitor within the final eight circumstances.
Final week, a cruise passenger went overboard from the MSC Euribia whereas the cruise ship was crusing close to Norway. the MSC ship initiated search efforts after a delay of roughly fifteen minutes which is in regards to the quickest response by MSC now we have seen to an individual going overboard from a MSC ship.
A twenty-three (23) year-old passenger from Scotland, named Liam Brody Wilkie Jones, went overboard from the MSC Euribia on March 15, 2024. His members of the family on Fb commented that they had been pissed off by the dearth of communications by the cruise line and the truth that there was no well timed announcement on the ship that an individual went overboard. There reportedly is completely no indication that the ship took any efforts to promptly conduct a search and rescue. The MSC cruise ship reportedly didn’t alter pace or path, deploy rescue craft, or use spotlights. The truth that it made no announcement {that a} visitor went overboard is constant that it made no effort to conduct a search.
On February 4, 2024, a passenger fell off the MSC Bellissima cruise ship touring from Taiwan to Okinawa. In keeping with the Taiwan Information, the passenger was positioned, pulled from the water after which rushed to a hospital, the place he was reported to be in good situation following medical remedy.
On December 30, 2023, a passenger went overboard from the MSC Preziosa after the MSC cruise ship left the port of Santos heading to New Yr’s Eve festivities in Rio de Janeiro.
A passenger went overboard from the MSC Armonia throughout a transatlantic cruise to Brazil on December 15, 2023. It doesn’t seem that the MSC ship made any effort to conduct a seek for the person within the water. AIS monitoring providers present that the MSC Armonia made no deviation of its course because the ship headed throughout the Atlantic ocean.
A crew member went overboard from the MSC Seascape in waters off of Puerto Rico on November 15, 2023. MSC delayed a number of hours in looking for its overboard crew members after which delayed notifying the household of the lacking crew member.
There is no such thing as a indication that the MSC Musica has a state-of-the-art man overboard (MOB) system which might robotically detect, by way of movement detection, radar and infra-red expertise, when somebody goes over the rails and might monitor the particular person within the water even at night time. With out such a system, it’s exceedingly troublesome to seek for an individual within the water, particularly at night time.
In 2017, we reported that MSC Cruises introduced that it had put in a state-of-the-art man overboard system on the MSC Meraviglia and was planning to deploy related programs throughout its fleet of cruise ships.
MSC Cruises indicated that it developed an “clever video capturing and evaluation system” in collaboration with “safety expertise consultants, Bosch and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.” The Swiss-based cruise line introduced that it has examined the brand new man overboard system on the corporate’s latest ship which debuted in June (2017). MSC reported that “via over 25,000 hours of video evaluation, intensive software program testing and steady algorithmic updates, the system has now reached a confirmed accuracy stage of 97%.”
The MOB information and pictures are analyzed by two separate and impartial picture processing programs which considerably decrease false alerts. “As soon as the alarm is activated in case of an overboard, an acoustic sign and light-weight will notify the ship’s safety officer, in a central safety room, who can instantly retrieve and overview the pictures and information and instantly notify the bridge to start rescue efforts,” in response to Seatrade Cruise Information. MSC Cruises introduced MSC Meraviglia is “fitted with an built-in video surveillance system to optimize safety monitoring on board the ship and which can permit, amongst different options, for the speediest intervention within the unlikely occasion an individual or object falls overboard.”
Sadly, it doesn’t seem that another MSC ships have been outfitted with the life saving MOB system. Twenty-seven (27) folks have gone overboard from MSC cruise ships since 2006.
That is the 412th particular person who has gone overboard since 2000, in response to Dr. Ross Klein who maintains the definitive checklist of cruise ship overboards.
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Picture credit score: MSC Musica – Bahnfrend – CC BY-SA 3.0 commons / wikimedia; MSC Musica AIS information – Cruise Radio.