You can read the long posts regarding the MV RENA grounding here
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10760182
... but I found this comment of particular interest:
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Paul (New Zealand)
02:20 PM Wednesday, 19 Oct 2011
I'd like to know the qualifications of the experts called in. How manmy marine engineers got on board the RENA in the first few hours after the grounding, looking at the ships plans, the damage, and trying to figure out how to get the oil off before the bad weahter arirved?
The reason there is still so much contraversay about the first four-five days is that all the communication put out about this issue hass been inconsistant, even contradictory. Pipes are only for engines, broken pipes, fixed pipes, broken pipes, no heating, oil somehow transferred anyway but not to barges. Then the salvers show up and take the obvious option. Jury-rig something.
Marine engineers would have been able to come up with a jury-rig plan in the first day, and the Director could have used special powers granted by the Navigation Act to requisition whatever equipment and people she needed in time to get a system set up to start pumping, prob as early as the weekend before the bad weather.
The reason there is still so much contraversay about the first four-five days is that all the communication put out about this issue hass been inconsistant, even contradictory. Pipes are only for engines, broken pipes, fixed pipes, broken pipes, no heating, oil somehow transferred anyway but not to barges. Then the salvers show up and take the obvious option. Jury-rig something.
Marine engineers would have been able to come up with a jury-rig plan in the first day, and the Director could have used special powers granted by the Navigation Act to requisition whatever equipment and people she needed in time to get a system set up to start pumping, prob as early as the weekend before the bad weather.
If marine engineers did get called in to assess the situation and decided that a jury-rig could not be used. Let them come forward and tell us so, but Joyce and Key saying everything was done isn't enough.
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