Marine Transportation Safety Investigation Report for Mooring Accident

One detailed investigation report documents a mooring accident involving the naval auxiliary supply vessel Asterix in Busan, Republic of Korea, on 28 May 2023. The report was published by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and was last updated in March 2026. It provides a formal account of the incident's circumstances and findings.

Use Cases

• Analyze narrative descriptions of the mooring accident sequence to identify procedural failures.
• Extract named entities like 'Asterix', 'Busan', and '28 May 2023' for populating incident databases.
• Study the investigation's findings text to model common causal factors in naval supply vessel incidents.

Strengths

• Report is from the authoritative Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
• Provides a detailed, official account of a specific international maritime incident.

Limitations

• Dataset consists of a single report (M23F0012), offering no statistical breadth.
• Data is unstructured text in HTML format, requiring parsing for quantitative analysis.
• Information is specific to one event, limiting generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada

Collection Method

Official safety investigation.

Time Range

Incident date: 28 May 2023.

Freshness

Report details were last updated on 2026-03-06.

Geography

Busan, Republic of Korea.