Every Maritime Accident
Has a Story. We Decode It.
MaydayLog is a maritime incident learning platform — turning dense investigation reports into plain English lessons for engineers, cadets, and everyone who keeps ships running.
Turning Maritime Tragedies Into Knowledge That Travels the World
Every year, thousands of maritime incidents occur at sea. Engines fail. Ships ground. Bridges collapse. Workers die. Investigation bodies spend months producing detailed reports — identifying exactly what went wrong, why it went wrong, and how to prevent it happening again.
Those reports sit unread in dense PDF format. Written in legal language. Buried on government websites. Inaccessible to the engineers and cadets who need them most.
MaydayLog exists to fix that. Every case study we publish takes one of those reports and transforms it — into a clear timeline, a plain English root cause analysis, and practical lessons every watchkeeper can actually use.
Maritime Safety Knowledge Is Being Lost After Every Incident
The maritime industry loses knowledge after every accident. Investigation authorities publish their findings. Companies issue internal bulletins. And then — the lessons fade. The same failures repeat. The same patterns emerge in the next incident report. And the next.
80% of maritime accidents involve human factors. Not because seafarers are careless — but because the systems designed to spread safety knowledge are not reaching the people who need it most.
How MaydayLog Decodes Every Incident
Every case study on MaydayLog follows the same structured format — designed for maximum clarity and practical value for working engineers and cadets.
Built on Official Investigation Reports
MaydayLog sources every case study from official government investigation bodies. All reports are public domain — published specifically to improve maritime safety worldwide.
Written From Inside the Engine Room
MaydayLog was created by Sohel Sekh — an engine cadet currently working aboard MEIN SCHIFF RELAX, a TUI Cruises vessel. Sohel works daily inside a real cruise ship engine room — maintaining machinery, standing watches, and learning first-hand what it means to keep a modern vessel running safely.
The idea for MaydayLog came from a simple observation: the most important maritime safety reports in the world were sitting unread in government PDF archives — while the same accidents kept happening at sea. As someone who understood both the engineering systems and the learning culture of the maritime industry, Sohel built MaydayLog to bridge that gap.
MaydayLog is not written by journalists or consultants. It is written by someone who goes to work in an engine room — and understands exactly what working engineers and cadets need to know.
What MaydayLog Stands For
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