Final Report on Loss of HMNZS Manawanui April 5, 2025In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former...

Good Summary of the report on the sinking of Manawanui. I have not seen much coverage on this thought some people here might be interested.

The presenters pronunciation of Maori words needs some work, but he does try. 😊

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    9 days ago

    The main thing covered is the actual chain of events from the “black box” (my word for it) transcribed from the voice recordings from the report.

    Yeah I think you’re right. All this stuff:

    Basically there was a lack of training, the crew didn’t figure out that the ship was still on autopilot until it was way too late.

    The Crew had control of the throttle but not control of the helm direction. So when the crew thought they were doing a full reverse they were actually making the problem worse. The crew went up to 100% throttle because they thought they had changed helm direction but in reality they we’re just getting to the reef quicker because autopilot still was in control of the direction of the ship.

    They didn’t follow procedure didn’t check if the autopilot was off and didn’t discover this until after they had hit the reef

    Was in the video about the initial report. I think what it didn’t have is the transcripts that provide that next level of detail.

    It will be interesting to see what happens with this (if anything that we hear about). While you could place some blame with the commanding officer, it seems from this that the bulk of the blame belongs higher up the chain.