The booth

Nobody in this industry is allowed to talk about what nearly happened.

Owners, managers, class and yards all carry the same commercial incentive: keep failure quiet. The result is that the most useful knowledge at sea — the thing that almost went wrong last Tuesday — never leaves the engine room. This is a place to put it down.

What we do and do not collect

  • — No name, no email, no company, no vessel, no IMO. We do not ask and cannot store them.
  • — No account, no sign-up, no reply. Nothing comes back to you.
  • — We publish patterns monthly — the failure mode and the record that held the warning — never a submission that could identify a ship. Please write it that way too.