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Do not Treat all Alarms as False, Investigate

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Velmurugan K, Student ID: 68412, Rank: 2A/E – Class IVAuthor
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Do not Treat all Alarms as False, Investigate

Severity: Major · Velmurugan K, Student ID: 68412, Rank: 2A/E – Class IV
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Summary:
Not taking serious about false alarm. During manoeuvring going for loading, vessel had stern tube oil high temp alarm for few seconds and gone. Engineers thought its false alarm but its not false alarm and its real alarm triggered because while proceeding for berthing in terminal, few minutes away, propeller got damaged due to insufficient depth.