Marine Tanker Grounding Investigation Report for Canadian Arctic

A single safety investigation report details the grounding of the oil and chemical tanker Kivalliq W. in Baker Lake, Nunavut. The report was produced by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and covers the incident occurring on 18 October 2022. It is an official document published on the Open Canada platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze narrative descriptions of the 'Bottom contact' incident to identify common failure modes in Arctic navigation.
• Extract entities like vessel name ('Kivalliq W.'), location ('Chesterfield Narrows'), and date ('18 October 2022') for populating maritime incident databases.
• Study the investigation findings text to train models for categorizing marine accident causes and contributing factors.

Strengths

• Report is an official investigation by a national transportation safety authority.
• Provides a specific, detailed account of a single maritime incident with known date and location.

Limitations

• Dataset consists of only one report (row count of 1), offering no statistical power.
• Data is unstructured text in HTML format, requiring significant processing for quantitative analysis.
• Content is temporally limited to a single event in 2022, with no broader time series.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

Collection Method

Official safety investigation.

Time Range

Incident date: 18 October 2022.

Freshness

Report was last updated on the platform in March 2026.

Geography

Chesterfield Narrows, Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic.