A crew member reportedly went overboard from the MSC Musica crusing from Italy final Monday night, in keeping with 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 seek advice from any eye-witness accounts, surveillance video or anybody at MSC as a supply for the proposition that the MSC worker “jumped.” There isn’t 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 concerning the overboard incident, together with an outline of how its worker went overboard, when it occurred, or when the cruise ship initiated its unspecified “man overboard process” and commenced its search and rescue efforts.
Cruise Radio posted a picture of the Computerized Data System (AIS) knowledge exhibiting the trail of MSC Musica 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 make 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 continues to be ongoing.”
It will 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 experiences.
Though there isn’t a supply cited for the declare that the crew member jumped, it’s in reality the almost definitely clarification when a ship worker goes overboard. In contrast to cruise passengers who sometimes go overboard after consuming extreme alcohol, most crew members who grow to be lacking from cruise ships resolve to finish their lives attributable to lengthy hours, exhausting 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. That is concerning the quickest response by MSC we now have seen to an individual going overboard from a MSC ship.
On March 15, 2024, a twenty-three (23) year-old passenger from Scotland, named Liam Brody Wilkie Jones, went overboard from the MSC Euribia. His members of the family on Fb commented that they have been pissed off by the shortage 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 totally no indication that the ship made any effort to promptly conduct a search and rescue. The MSC cruise ship reportedly didn’t alter velocity or course, deploy rescue craft, or use spotlights. The truth that it made no man overboard announcement is per the shortage of effort to conduct a search.
On February 4, 2024, a passenger fell off the MSC Bellissima cruise ship touring from Taiwan to Okinawa. Based on the Taiwan News, 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 companies 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 member after which delayed notifying the household of the lacking crew member.
There isn’t any indication that the MSC Musica has a state-of-the-art man overboard (MOB) system which might routinely detect, by way of movement detection, radar and infra-red expertise, when somebody goes over the rails and may observe the particular person within the water even at night time. With out such a system, it’s exceedingly tough 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 comparable 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 knowledge and pictures are analyzed by two separate and unbiased picture processing programs which considerably decrease false alerts. “As soon as the alarm is activated in case of an overboard, an acoustic sign and lightweight will notify the ship’s safety officer, in a central safety room, who can instantly retrieve and evaluation the photographs and knowledge and instantly notify the bridge to start rescue efforts,” in keeping with Seatrade Cruise News. 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.”
In July 2019, a cruise guest in her 40’s went overboard from the MSC Meraviglia but was promptly rescued after the auto MOB alerted the crew that she went overboard.
Sadly, it doesn’t seem that some other 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 keeping with Dr. Ross Klein who maintains the definitive list of cruise ship overboards.
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Picture credit score: MSC Musica – Bahnfrend – CC BY-SA 3.0 commons / wikimedia; MSC Musica AIS knowledge – Cruise Radio.
