IMCA has updated, since early 2015, the DP incident database pusblishing the collection of the voluntarily reported station keeping incidents from 2011 to 2015 (the last station keeping incident report 2010 was posted on 2012). This last set of updates…
In a previous post we have pointed the attention on the impossibility of carrying out DP Footprint verification with the software K-Pos release 8 (see the article here) if not provided with a hardcopy printer. We have forwarded an improvement…
How to carry out a DP Footprint Verification with Kongsberg DP software rel. 8? Medea srl, Naval Architects, Marine Engineers & DP Auditors Company, has recently found that the new version 8 of the Kongsberkg DP software does not allow DP…
IMCA and MTS are the most accredited bodies giving guidance for the offshore players operating DP units. Both of them have release, among the others, guidelines on the preparation of the DP Operation Manual. Medea has recently carried out a Gap Analysis of an IMCA-based DPOM…
We pass on our Customer and Subscrivers this important IMCA DP Safety Flash – no. 3/2015 with subject: DP Management – Collision with Rig, which can be found here: http://www.imca-int.com/media/210393/imca_dp_safety_flash_03-15.pdf Shortly, attention is drawn on human factor behind main cause ostensibly recorded as “enviromental”. The lesson…
Medea, conscious of the importance of sharing information and lessons learnt, strongly intends to promulgate DP safety culture. A help in such a direction is done by passing IMCA DP Safety Flashes to Medea’s Customers, Followers and Subscrivers. In this…
Medea intende sempre più partecipare a diversi convegni, seminari e workshop sia come spettatore sia come relatore. Dopo aver coordinato e partecipato attivamente al seminario su navi DP (vedi evento qui:http://www.medeadesign.com/dp-vessels-conference/?lang=en), Medea è stata presente all’evento IMCA, Europe and Africa…
With the industry growth in DP vessels, technology advances with more complex designs, along with a decline in experienced and trained operators, means that often the DP redundancy and fault tolerance is defeated by the operator by incorrect application of the operational…
