New lifeboat design replaces hook system with drop-in-ball technology to improve safety

摘要

IT'S LOGICAL - a lifeboat is supposed to save lives, not cause deaths or injuries. Then why were people in the maritime and offshore industry continually getting hurt in pure safety exercises? This question bothered Bent Nielsen, senior general manager of Maersk Drilling. So he did a study, wrote a wish list and created a safe lifeboat concept for his fellow seamen. A prototype of the boat was presented publicly for the first time at a meeting of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in London on 28 May 2009. Mr Nielsen and Esben Juul Sorensen of Maersk Maritime Technology are now handling subsequent inquires, plus practicalities concerning production and marketing.