Channel ferry doors 'left open'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8137618.stm

TransEuropa operates the ferry between Ostend and Ramsgate
Watertight doors on a cross-Channel ferry were regularly left open
while it was at sea, a report has found.

The UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) published its
findings after an engine-room fitter was hurt on the passenger ferry
Eurovoyager.

The fitter was found trapped in a hydraulically-operated steel
watertight door in a machinery space as the vessel sailed for
Ramsgate, Kent, in November.

The operator TransEuropa Shipping Lines said it would not be
commenting.

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Readers may remember the tragic sinking of the Herald Enterprise - a
similar cross-channel ferry - that sank due to the bow doors not being
closed before setting sail.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/8/newsid_2626000/2626265.stm

It appears that nothing has been learnt.

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Emails / Letters / Phone Calls / Faxes / etc. of concern can be sent
to TransEuropa via:

http://www.transeuropaferries.co.uk/html/contacts.html

http://www.transeuropaferries.com/index.php?page=kontakt

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Try getting your facts right. There is no connection between the two
incidents. The TransEuropa doors were the internal doors, the Heralds
were the shell doors. No similarity, apart frpm breaking regulations.

-- 
Colin

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from CJB  contains these words:

> Channel ferry doors 'left open'

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8137618.stm

> TransEuropa operates the ferry between Ostend and Ramsgate
> Watertight doors on a cross-Channel ferry were regularly left open
> while it was at sea, a report has found.

> The UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) published its
> findings after an engine-room fitter was hurt on the passenger ferry
> Eurovoyager.

> The fitter was found trapped in a hydraulically-operated steel
> watertight door in a machinery space as the vessel sailed for
> Ramsgate, Kent, in November.

> The operator TransEuropa Shipping Lines said it would not be
> commenting.

> =========

> Readers may remember the tragic sinking of the Herald Enterprise - a
> similar cross-channel ferry - that sank due to the bow doors not being
> closed before setting sail.

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/8/newsid_2626000/2626265.stm

> It appears that nothing has been learnt.

> =========

> Emails / Letters / Phone Calls / Faxes / etc. of concern can be sent
> to TransEuropa via:

> http://www.transeuropaferries.co.uk/html/contacts.html

> http://www.transeuropaferries.com/index.php?page=kontakt

> =========