Records from 2015 to 2017. Most recent: operational control imposed, 28 April 2017.
Personnel › Manning/Qualifications › Minimum Safe Manning
Issued 25 April 2017
No resolution recorded
Deficiencies which may be deemed to pose a danger to persons, property, or the environment include the following: absence in a watch of a person qualified to operate equipment essential to safety radio communications. The only officer serving onboard during the exam with a GMDSS certificate of competency could not ID the equipment on the bridge and stated he did not know how to make a DSC call.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Navigation › Piloting/Steering › Magnetic Compass
Issued 25 April 2017
No resolution recorded
All ships, irrespective of size, shall have: a properly adjusted magnetic compass to determine the ship's heading and sisplay the reading at the main steering position. The vessel's magnet compass display is unreadable.
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Navigation › Piloting/Steering › Magnetic Compass
Issued 25 April 2017
No resolution recorded
All ships 150 gross tonnage and upwards shall be fitted with: a spare magnetic compass interchangeable with the magnetic compass as referred to in paragraph 2.1.1. The vessel did not have on board a duplicate means to perform the function of the magnetic compass.
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Navigation › Piloting/Steering › Compass Deviation Table
Issued 25 April 2017
No resolution recorded
On vessels certified for operation in Restricted area II, the compass shall have a deviation card provided near to the compass as well as maintained record of deviation. The vessel's deviation card is outdated.
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Personnel › Certificates/Documents/Licenses › Medical Fitness Document
Issued 24 April 2017
Resolved
Every seafarer holding a certificate issued under the provisions of the Convention, who is serving at sea, shall also hold a valid medical certificate. The able seaman did not hold a medical certificate.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 24 April 2017
Resolution: A doctor came onboard and issued a medical certificate while the exam team was present.
Personnel › Certificates/Documents/Licenses › STCW Endorsement
Issued 24 April 2017
Resolved
Each Administration shall ensure that the provisions of this regulation are complied with, in order to recognize, by endorsement in accordance with regulation I/2, paragraph 7. The master's flag endorsement was not on board.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 24 April 2017
Resolution: The Flag endorsement was provided onboard with the exam team present.
Lifesaving › Rescue Boat Equipment › First Aid Kit
Issued 24 April 2017
Resolved
LSA required by this chapter shall comply with the technical specifications of the LSA Code. All items of rescue boat equipment shall be secured within the rescue boat. The rescue boat did not have the equipment as required by the Code.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 24 April 2017
Documentation › Logs/Records › Logbook (official)
Issued 24 April 2017
No resolution recorded
The master shall make or have made in the Logbook the following entries: details of the voyage, including course and weather conditions at least every 4 hours, and drill tests required by Chapter 4 of this Code; details of drills and training; and the names of all seafarers employed onboard for each voyage. The crew did not maintain the official log as required by the Code.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 24 May 2017 — due date passed with no resolution recorded
Operations/Management › Drills/Instruction › Not Conducted
Issued 24 April 2017
No resolution recorded
The master shall ensure that the frequency of drills performed shall not exceed the interval addressed in the following frequencies: fire drills - monthly; enclosed spaces - quarterly; steering gear - quarterly; man overboard - monthly; abandon ship - monthly. The crew stated that have not been performing the required drills at the prescribed intervals and have not been logged.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 24 May 2017 — due date passed with no resolution recorded
Lifesaving › Line-Throwing Appliances › Projectiles
Issued 24 April 2017
Resolved
All vessels operating in Restricted area II are to be provided with two Line Throwing Apparatus which shall be stored in the navigation bridge. The vessel did not have the required Line Throwing Apparatus.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 24 April 2017
Resolution: Two Line Throwing Apparatus were provided onboard while the exam team was present.
Fire Fighting › Firemans Outfit › Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus
Issued 24 April 2017
Resolved
A fireman's outfit shall consist of: breathing apparatus of an approved type. The vessel has only one breathing apparatus but is required to have two complete fireman's outfits as per 3.11.1.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 24 April 2017
Resolution: An additional self-contained breathing apparatus was provided onboard while the exam team was present.
Operations/Management › Drills/Instruction › Fire
Issued 24 April 2017
Resolved
Training drills shall as far as practicable be conducted as if there were an actual emergency. The crew did not properly don the fireman's outfit as if responding to an actual fire.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 24 April 2017
Resolution: The crew was provided with training and a second drill was satisfactory.
Lifesaving › Lifebuoys › Markings (ship name/port)
Issued 24 April 2017
Resolved
Lifebuoys shall be marked in block capitals of the Roman alphabet with the name and port of registry of the ship on whitch it is carried. One lifebuoy was missing the letters from the name and port of registry.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Resolved 24 April 2017
Resolution: Letters to complete the name and port of registry were provided with the exam team present.
Documentation › Certificates/Documents › Caribbean Cargo Ship Safety Code Cert. (CCSSC)
Issued 24 April 2017
No resolution recorded
The certificate referred to in 1.12.1 shall be supplemented by a Record of Equipment and Ship Information which shall be permanently attached thereto. There are several discrepancies on the Record articulated in the Form B.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 24 May 2017 — due date passed with no resolution recorded
Documentation › Certificates/Documents › International Tonnage Certificate
Issued 24 April 2017
No resolution recorded
The form of the certificate shall correspond to that of the model given in Annex II. The second page of the tonnage certificate is missing.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 24 May 2017 — due date passed with no resolution recorded
Fire Fighting › Firemans Outfit › Quantity
Issued 7 October 2016
Resolved
Vessel missing one fireman's outfit.
Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 8 October 2016
Resolution: An additional fireman outfit was provided on board.
Lifesaving › Rescue Boat › Construction
Issued 7 October 2016
Resolved
The vessel's crew made repairs to the vessel's rescue boat without notifying flag to sending it to an approved servicing center.
Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 3 November 2016
Resolution: Received Flag State report attesting to the purchase of a new rescue boat.
Navigation › Piloting/Steering › Gyro Compass
Issued 7 October 2016
Resolved
Vessel did not have a gyro compass
Condition: Improper Installation
Action required: 40 - Rectify deficiencies prior to next US port after sailing foreign
Resolved 3 November 2016
Resolution: Received Flag State report attesting to the installation of a gyro compass.
Fire Fighting › Fixed Fire Detection System › Smoke Detectors
Issued 7 October 2016
Resolved
vessel's crew was unable to demonstrate the proper operation of the fire detection and alarm system.
Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 17 - Rectify deficiencies prior to departure
Resolved 8 October 2016
Resolution: The system was satisfactorily tested and verified as operational by a USCG PSCO.
Pollution Prevention/Response › Prevention Equipment › Drains/Scuppers (means of closure)
Issued 7 October 2016
Resolved
Containment at the vessel's bunkering station has wooden plugs.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 7 November 2016
Resolved 3 November 2016
Resolution: Received Flag State report attesting to the installation of proper plugs for vessel's containment.
Documentation › Certificates/Documents › Minimum Safe Manning Document
Issued 7 October 2016
Resolved
The vessel's agent took all of the certificates and left no copy or reciept on board.
Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 7 October 2016
Resolved 7 October 2016
Resolution: Agent returned with all the certificates he took.
Operations/Management › Vessel Safety Management › Maintenance of Ship/Equipment
Issued 7 October 2016
Resolved
Ship owners shall effect a shore-based radio equipment contrat with a service supplier authorized by the andministration or recornised organization for the performance of this function. The ship does not have a shore based maintenance contract or person on board to serivce the vessel's radio installations.
Condition: Improper/Lack of Maintenance
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 7 November 2016
Resolved 3 November 2016
Resolution: Received Flag State report attesting to the establishment of shore based maintenance contract.
Operations/Management › Pollution › Control of Garbage
Issued 7 October 2016
Resolved
Vessel does not have a garbage management plan.
Action required: 705 - Other - as specified
Due 7 November 2016
Resolved 1 December 2016
Resolution: Received Flag State report attesting to the acquisition of a Garbage Management Plan.