Integrity breakdown

摘要

On 5 May 2012, the 185.74m geared bulk carrier ID Integrity departed from Shanghai, China. The ship was in ballast and bound for Townsville, Australia, where it was to load a cargo of sugar. En route, the crew carried out an exchange of the ship's ballast water in accordance with Australian ballast water management requirements that required the running of two of the ship's three diesel generators. The ship's engineers found that diesel generator numbers 2 (DG2) and 3 (DG3) could not carry the required load, so they dismantled and cleaned the tur-bochargers. They were found to be heavily contaminated with carbon. In the days following this maintenance, DG2 was used to supply all the ship's electrical needs.