www.The-Triton.com | February 2020
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Celebrating 15 years
News Yacht crew aid in rescue after personal watercraft hit by small boat in St. Barts.
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Where in the World Dance, dine and drink near Dublin’s Dun Laoghaire Marina.
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Deckhand Antonino Hernandez, First Mate and dive instructor John Cramer, Chef Giovanni Lorenzana and Engr. Maverick Maharaj demonstrate underwater photography equipment in the
dive center of M/Y Acala, a 102-foot Cantiere delle Marche, during Lauderdale Marine Center’s Broker Day in January. For more, see Page 34.
Fires light up crew safety training, industry awareness By Dorie Cox November saw M/Y Lohengrin, a 161-foot Trinity, and M/Y Reflection, a 107-foot Christensen, go up in flames in a shipyard in Fort Lauderdale. It was one of the city’s largest financial losses on record. Then in December, the 120-foot M/Y Andiamo burned while docked at a marina in Miami. These are just a few of last year’s incidents that have ignited the attention
of the yacht industry. In response, yacht captains and crew have taken another look at safety on board, industry professionals have encouraged conversation about those safety issues, and the business of yachting has continued. Coming at the topic from two different angles, fires are on the mind of Capt. Hamish Chilvers, who is both a yacht captain and an insurance broker with OnlyYacht Superyacht Insurance. While
at work on board a yacht in January, he experienced an electrical engine room fire. “The only reason I knew was that I lost the generator and main engine,” Capt. Chilvers said. “The smoke detector did not go off and we’re not sure why. We went deadship and pulled the fire suppression. It happened fast.” With 40 years in the industry, he had
From the Bridge Dorie Cox
A yacht engineer wrote in to The Triton that he had been watching boats speed through the harbor in St. Barts. He wanted so badly to shout at them to
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Photographer and Capt. Kevin Davidson shares his tips for sharp shipwreck shots.
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Captains cautious to comment on bad behavior slow down, but he didn’t. When a boat hit a personal watercraft and left a man seriously injured, the engineer was upset that he had not spoken up. This triggered this month’s Triton From the Bridge lunch topic: What do you do when you see bad behavior? The diverse group of mostly veteran captains found it easy to agree on examples of right and wrong, from poor driving, fail-
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ure to adhere to maritime rules, dumping overboard and letting fuel overflow. But what actions they took varied. Captains are considered authority figures, and we thought they might use their leadership to right such wrongs and call people out on their errors. That is not always the case. “When we see something like that, See BRIDGE, Page 41
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