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MSA
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Produce an MSA Circular Letter to Surveyors, instructing them, when surveying rigid inflatable craft, to include the inflatable pontoons and their attachments to the hull, as though they were an integral part of the hull.
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We have asked the management at M & I to undertake a study into the special nature of NAIAD craft compared to conventional vessels. We have asked them to issue appropriate instructions to their surveyors to take the difference into account. The M & I surveyor who surveyed Uruao shortly before the accident has been reminded that the pontoon is an integral part of the hull and that its condition and means of attachment to the hull requires particular attention.
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