Near miss: lift bag released unintentionally from crane hook

Description of Incident

During a saturation dive, deck crew connected a lift bag to the crane to subsequently send it down to the diver. When the crane hook went through the splash-zone, the lift bag came free from the crane hook and floated on the surface. As the vessel was in DP mode there was the potential for damage to the vessel´s thrusters and potential loss of the vessel's position – while divers were subsea. No damage or harm occurred, but the event had the potential to cause considerable damage.

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