A report into a fire on board a ship contracted by Australia’s Antarctic Division (AAD) in April 2021 heavily criticises the division and the ship’s operators over failures which left it “and its 109 personnel in a precarious situation … in some of the harshest and least-forgiving oceans on the planet”.
The ATSB says the ship’s managers “had not ensured the ship was appropriately manned, equipped or prepared … for operations in the Southern Ocean or Antarctica”, with it being many senior crew’s first time on the ship and first time in Antarctica.
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