Gt-Win

A court in Singapore has sentenced the Vietnamese captain Nguyen Duc Nghi, 50, of the 'GT Win' to 14 months in jail after he admitted to lying about a fatal incident aboard the vessel in 2024. was is the second officer from the ship, who was sentenced to jail for the incident that took the life of a seafarer ordered to clean a gas tank, while the case against Dao Tien Manh, the chief officer, was still pending in the courts. The gas tanker had arrived in Singapore on May 11, 2024, transporting a cargo of naphtha, offloaded its cargo and moved to the anchorage., where the chief officer ordered three crew members to clean the emptied tanks, failing to check the oxygen levels and make the necessary safety checks. Further, he instructed the pump master, Le Thanh Dung, to make modifications to the mask of the breathing apparatus. He connected the mask’s hose to an air bottle on deck, which prosecutors called “impractical", noting space constraints at a staircase. The victim, Hoang Van Chau, became unconscious while working in one of the tanks. The crew attempted CPR and requested emergency medical assistance from shore. Chau was pronounced dead at a local hospital, due to exposure to volatile hydrocarbons. The captainconcealed the facts of the incident from the Singapore Police Force and the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore. After the fatality, the captain spoke with the vessel’s pump master, who showed him the altered breathing mask. Due to the court filings, the master threw the mask overboard. Further, he instructed the crew that they should tell the investigators that Chau had been found unconscious in the tank and lie about the details. He said that was the only way the family would get the insurance money. Nghi was taken into custody on May 12. Crew members then told the investigators the truth about how the death happened. When the police confronted the captain, he admitted to have lied and instructed the crew to lie too. His actions were also equated to insurance fraud.

The Public Prosecutor in Singapore was proceeding with a case against the master, chief officer, and the pump master of the 'GT Win', fo the death of a crew member on May 11, 2024, after he entered a tank that had not been properly vented and inspected. The pump master pleaded guilty on July 2, 2025, to one count of acts endangering the life of the crew member. The chemical tanker had offloaded a cargo of naphtha and the moved to the Singapore anchorage, where the chief officer, Dao Tien Manh, ordered three crew members to clean the emptied tanks, although he failed to check the oxygen levels and did not carry out the necessary safety checks. Further, he instructed the pump master, Le Thanh Dung, to make modifications to the mask of the breathing apparatus. He connected the mask’s hose to an air bottle on deck, which prosecutors called impractical, noting space constraints at a staircase. One of the crew members, Hoang Van Chau, became unconscious while working in one of the tanks. Chau was found unconscious inside tank 6 instead of tank 4, which had not been declared gas-free before he entered the tank. The crew attempted CPR and requested emergency medical assistance from shore. Chau was pronounced deceased at a local hospital, dying from exposure to volatile hydrocarbons. Dung later admitted to the false information in two written statements provided to investigators. He further told investigators that he showed the modified mask to the vessel’s master, Nguyen Duc Nghi. He contended the master threw the mask into the sea, and told the crew to lie about it to the police so that Chau’s family would get the insurance money. The pump master, was sentenced to three months and two weeks in jail after his guilty plea. The cases against the master and chief officer for their role in the death were still pending in the Singapore courts.

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