The crew in Manawanui during sinking was underestimated, sending to the task – report

The crew – and the commander – from the Manawanui Navy Ship were trained and the boat was not up to the task that was doing when grounded in a Samoan Recife.

Multiple crew failures, the ship and the navy itself were identified in a conviction by a court of investigation on the wreck of the Upoli coast in October, which occurred after being left on autopilot and could not rotate.

The report also contains a complete transcription of the dramatic night. Including the captain saying to the crew that he would survive if they abandoned the ship.

The Manawanui have conducted Recife’s river research before the Commonwealth government meeting, something that neither the ship nor the crew were properly equipped to do it when they ran into.

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There was no one on board qualified enough to conduct the hydrographic survey that the ship was in charge of doing and the ship itself was not released for this work, according to the court.

There were not enough people on board to have effective clock rotation to prevent fatigue during the prolonged research task, according to the court.

Of the 45 people on board, there were “20 personnel deficiencies,” he said.

There were weaknesses in training – which allowed some people to keep on the ship without the necessary levels of proficiency or experience.

The report details the captains’ word for their crew as they prepared to leave the ship after it was based several times and it was clear that it needed to be abandoned.

“This is not a great situation, however, I have faith that you all know what they need to do. We’ll get to our Eixas Life Stations, we will enter our life and survive and then we will wait for the help to get to.”

The person in charge of the ship at the time of the incident was “distracted”, which the Court of Inquiry found contributed to the lack of situational consciousness.

Meanwhile, the role of the supervisor “was not clearly defined” and they had inadequate situational conscience and understanding of how the ship operated, he found.

The ship sailed one day after the scheduled schedule because of an azimuth propeller defect before navigation.

The Court of Inquiry found that the pressure of time influenced the way the research task was performed and “this time pressure could have been avoided if the task had been properly planned.”

“Risk management culture has been poorly weighted and weighted to achieve the mission without the balance needed to ensure that the mission be safely completed,” he said.

The court found no errors with the ship’s engines during grounding.

“At the time of grounding, there is no evidence that the ship has a loss of power or a fault of direction/control,” he said.

Speaking of the media a short time ago, the chief of the Navy Admiral Garin Golding said the Navy will have a “relentless focus on continuous improvement”.

“I want to assure everyone, including the most important, the navy and the broader defense force, how seriously leading to the answer to this report,” he said.

“The security of our people and the missions we perform are my main priority.”

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