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Turkish Journal of Maritime and Marine Sciences, vol.5, no.2, 2019 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
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states must issue their maritime investigation reports in accordance with the
International Maritime Organization (IMO) circulars with the inclusion of
‘lessons learned’ items from recordedaccidents or incidents. To identify the
root cause of an event, there must be enough detail of information about the
investigated event presented in reports. The information included in reports may
help identifying the procedural deficiencies or technical challenges.
Considering the Man-Over-Board (MOB) events as a sub group of maritime accident
investigations, authors systematically reviewed over 100 reports containing MOB
events in this study.
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this study, reports are reviewed and major differences in formats as well as
level and type of information are recorded. A systematic methodology for
reviewing and reporting the overall information retrieved from maritime
accident reports is presented. To cover all information from reviewed reports,
113 information items are identified. An associated standard form is developed
for use in extracting information from all investigation reports. Enabling the
data collected systematically from reports, issued by the world maritime
accident reporting states and agencies, and successively populated into a
database for overall analysis, this form is called “Maritime MOB Events
Investigation Form (MEI Form)”. This paper presents the content of the MEI Form
and demonstrates the methodology of use for retrieving, formatting and analysing the information from the
MOB investigation reports using case examples. Benefits of collecting this data
in a structured execution methodology as part of the BIG DATA project is shown.