News in Brief from the DP Committee
- DP Event
- Published on 16 January 2025
- Generated on 30 December 2025
- DPE 01/25
- 2 minute read
Revised Documents
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M140 rev. 2 – Recommended Practice for Specification and Use of Capability Plots
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M149 Issue 14 – eCMID Vessel Inspection (≥500gt) – formerly the Common Marine Inspection Document
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M189 Issue 7 – eCMID Small Vessel Inspection (<500gt) – formerly known as eMISW, applicable to small workboats and other vessels
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M167 rev. 5 – Guidance on the IMCA eCMID System
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M220 rev.3 – Recommended Practice on Operational Activity Planning
New Marine Documents
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M268 – Recommended Practice for the operation of Class 1 DP vessels
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M269 – Dynamic Positioning Station Keeping Review – Incidents and events reported in 2024
Station Keeping Events STATS
2024 saw a record number of event forms being submitted in to IMCA, with 217 forms from 56 companies submitted. This month each of those companies received their certificate of participation, to show our appreciation for them taking the time to complete and report their events, whether big (incident) or small (observation).
Figure 3 – A decade of reports
The secondary failures recorded (the trigger behind the event) continues to be same top three as previously years, namely electrical, mechanical and human and though still higher than precovid, the percentage of DP incidents appears to be on a downward trend.
Figure 4 – Secondary Failure Trends
Figure 5– Percentage of DP Event Reports received resulting in DP Incidents
(loss of position/heading)
To see the report in full the Dynamic Positioning Station Keeping Review – Incidents and Events Reported for 2024 can be downloaded from our website. here.
The IMCA DP reporting form is currently available upon request from dpreports@imca-int.com. Please complete and forward to the same address dpreports@imca-int.com.
Latest DP incidents
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Simultaneous Operations
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DP emergency drill scenarios are included to assist DP vessel management and DPOs / Engineers and ETOs to conduct DP drills onboard.
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Know your settings
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Importance of familiarisation and paying attention
The importance of maintaining full attention during the operator's time on the DP desk can never be underestimated, or forgotten
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Worst case failure preparedness
Operators must be prepared for worst case failures
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The case studies and observations above have been compiled from information received by IMCA. All vessel, client, and operational data has been removed from the narrative to ensure anonymity. Case studies are not intended as guidance on the safe conduct of operations, but rather to assist vessel managers, DP operators, and technical crew.
IMCA makes every effort to ensure both the accuracy and reliability of the information, but it is not liable for any guidance and/or recommendation and/or statement herein contained.
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