Mooring Accident Report for Roll-on/Roll-off Ferry Madeleine II

09 January 2022 accident involving the roll-on/roll-off ferry Madeleine II during mooring operations at Cap-aux-Meules, Quebec. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada published this official safety investigation report. The report is available in HTML format.

Use Cases

• Analyze narrative descriptions of the accident sequence to identify common failure points in mooring procedures.
• Extract named entities like vessel name 'Madeleine II' and location 'Cap-aux-Meules' for geospatial mapping of incident hotspots.
• Parse investigation findings to train text classifiers for categorizing marine incident reports by event type (e.g., mooring accident).

Strengths

• Report is an official investigation by the national Transportation Safety Board of Canada, ensuring authoritative content.
• Specific temporal and geographic details are provided: 09 January 2022 in Cap-aux-Meules, Quebec.

Limitations

• Dataset consists of a single incident report (M22C0005), representing a sample size of one.
• Data is unstructured text in HTML, requiring parsing and NLP techniques for quantitative analysis.
• No associated quantitative data (e.g., sensor readings, weather metrics) or structured columns are explicitly available.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada (Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada).

Collection Method

Official safety investigation following a marine transportation incident.

Time Range

Incident date: 09 January 2022.

Freshness

Report details a 2022 incident and was last updated in the repository on 2026-03 06.

Geography

Cap-aux-Meules, Quebec, Canada.