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Interim factual reports are listed here and are not included in the database until the relevant final report is published, at which time the interim report will be appended to the introductory web page for the final report:
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09-202
Marine Inquiry 09-202: Passenger vessel Oceanic Discoverer,Fatal injury, Port of Napier
19 February 2009
Volume Unknown
4 Safety Recommendations
of which 4 are open
Published on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Executive summary
General
On 19 February 2009, the Australian-registered passenger ship Oceanic Discoverer was at its berth in the New Zealand port of Napier. The crew were conducting a fire and emergency drill, of which part was to close and test the hydraulically closed watertight doors.
The master closed the watertight doors remotely from the bridge. Some minutes later the chief...
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11-201
Report 11-201, Passenger vessel Volendam, lifeboat fatality, Port of Lyttelton, New Zealand, 8 January 2011
Volume Unknown
0 Safety Recommendations
of which 0 are open
Published on Thursday, November 24, 2011
On the afternoon of 8 January 2011, the passenger vessel Volendam was alongside in Lyttelton. Some of the crew were carrying out routine maintenance on one of the starboard lifeboats when at about 1400 the forward lifeboat fall wire parted and 2 crew members fell into the water; the lifeboat remained suspended by the aft lifeboat fall wire.
The alarm was raised and a rescue boat and crew were...
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10-203
Report 10-203: Marsol Pride, uncontrolled release of fire-extinguishing gas into engine room, Tui oil and gas field, 27 May 2010
Volume Unknown
1 Safety Recommendation
of which 1 is open
Published on Thursday, September 15, 2011
On 23 May 2010 the general-purpose oilfield support vessel Marsol Pride was conducting underwater operations within the Tui oil and gas field off the west coast of New Zealand. The Marsol Pride was fitted with a fixed carbon dioxide (CO2) fire smothering system for its engine room. Late that night a valve on one of the CO2 pilot cylinders developed a leak and charged the system ready for...
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09-204
Report 09-204 : Coastguard rescue vessel Dive! Tutukaka Rescue collision with rocks, Taiharuru River entrance Northland, 4 March 2009; and Report 09-207:Coastguard rescue vessel Trusts Rescue, heavy weather encounter, Manukau Bar, 31 May 2009
Volume M115
6 Safety Recommendations
of which 6 are open
Published on Thursday, June 16, 2011
On 4 March 2009, the Tutukaka Coastguard vessel Dive! Tutukaka Rescue was tasked to assist a recreational vessel in difficulty in Ngunguru Bay south of Tutukaka. It was night-time and the sea condition was rough. The crew of the Coastguard vessel became so focused on locating the vessel in difficulty that they lost awareness of where their own vessel was and struck a rock at a moderate speed....
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10-201
Marine inquiry 10-201 Bulk carrier TPC Wellington, double fatality resulting from enclosed space entry, Port Marsden, Northland, 3 May 2010
Volume M114
0 Safety Recommendations
of which 0 are open
Published on Thursday, June 09, 2011
On the afternoon of 3 May 2010, the bulk log carrier TPC Wellington was loading logs in Port Marsden, Northland. When the chief officer entered a cargo hold that was full of logs that had been loaded at a previous port, he rapidly lost useful consciousness (lost the ability to hold on to the ladder) and fell from the ladder onto the cargo below.
The ship?s bosun had accompanied the chief...
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08-209
Report 08-209: Loss of the rigid inflatable boat Mugwop, off the entrance to Lyttelton Harbour, 28 October 2008
Volume M113
1 Safety Recommendation
of which 1 is open
Published on Thursday, March 24, 2011
The Mugwop was a 5.8 metre outboard-driven rigid inflatable boat (RIB), a tender for the dredge Machiavelli, which was working on the Christchurch ocean outfall project in Pegasus Bay off Christchurch. The Mugwop was being used to transfer crew twice daily between Christchurch and the various vessels involved in the project.
On 28 October 2008, the dredge and dive support barge were to...
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09-201
Report 09-201: collision: private jet-boat/private watercraft, Kawarau River, Queenstown, 5 January 2009
Volume M112
6 Safety Recommendations
of which 6 are open
Published on Thursday, March 24, 2011
At about 1924 hours on 5 January 2009, a recreational jet-boat and personal watercraft collided almost head-on at high speed close to willow trees near the bank of the Kawarau River, Queenstown.
None of the 3 persons on the jet-boat was wearing a lifejacket2, so when the driver and front-seat passenger were ejected from the boat in the collision and probably rendered unconscious, they...
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08-205
Report 08-205: fishing vessel, San Cuvier, dragged anchor and grounded, Tarakeha Point, Bay of Plenty, 27 July 2008
Volume M111
2 Safety Recommendations
of which 0 are open
Published on Thursday, September 16, 2010
At about 0300 on 27 July 2008 the fishing vessel San Cuvier dragged its anchor and grounded on rocks close to Tarakeha Point to the east of Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty. The skipper drowned and another crew member was missing presumed drowned after they attempted to abandon the vessel. Another 2 crew members survived by scaling the rocks close to the stricken vessel.
The forecast for the area...
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08-206
Report 08-206: passenger ferry Monte Stello, collisions with wharves, Picton and Wellington, 8 and 9 August 2008
Volume M110
3 Safety Recommendations
of which 3 are open
Published on Wednesday, September 08, 2010
On 8 and 9 August 2008, the roll-on/roll-off passenger and freight ferry Monte Stello was involved in 2 berthing occurrences: the first a collision with the floating pontoon at its berth in Picton, and the second a collision with the end of Glasgow Wharf where it was to berth in Wellington.
The Picton occurrence resulted in damage to the steelwork securing the pontoon to the link-span and...
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09-208
Final Report into the capsize and foundering of the single outrigger passenger ferry Uean Te Raoi II off Maiana Island in the Republic of Kiribati, 13 July 2009
Volume Refer to abstract
0 Safety Recommendations
of which 0 are open
Published on Thursday, July 15, 2010
The Republic of Kiribati established a Commission of Inquiry into the capsize and foundering of the single outrigger passenger ferry Uean Te Raoi II off Maiana Island on 13 July 2009, which resulted in 35 deaths and 16 survivors. The New Zealand Transport Accident Investigation Commission was asked to provide within one month an interim report to the Kiribati Commission to enable the Kiribati...
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