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WATERFRONT BUSINESS In brief��� Criticism for Rena review Russell Kilvington, former head of the Maritime Safety Authority is ���perplexed and disappointed��� at the review his former agency has announced into its response to the grounding of the Rena a year ago. Kilvington was head of MSA at the time of the most recent large-scale grounding before the Rena, the Jody F Millennium incident at Gisborne in 2002. He has criticised the scope of the sixmonth review of Maritime NZ���s response to the Rena���s grounding off the Tauranga coast on October 5, 2011, describing the review���s terms of reference as ���narrow��� and essentially related to Maritime NZ���s operational response. He also criticised the appointment of Simon Murdoch to lead the review. ���This is certainly not the major allembracing review that I recall many government ministers and not just opposition parties were calling for at the time of the accident.��� Kilvington said he had expected someone with a good knowledge of maritime operations, maritime law and oil spill response to head the review, not a career diplomat and former acting chief of the Government Communications Security Bureau which now facing questions over its illegal spying on internet billionaire Kim Dotcom. ���My real concern is that failure to learn all the lessons of the Rena will simply mean that New Zealand will wait in blissful ignorance for the next similar catastrophe.��� Maritime NZ director Keith Manch yesterday defended the appointment of Mr Murdoch as one of New Zealand���s most experienced senior public servants. He said he was happy with scope of the review. Coroner calls for compulsory lifejackets Otago Southland coroner David Crerar has recommended Maritime New Zealand make the wearing of lifejackets compulsory after a Wanaka boatie drowned. Trevor Lloyd Hawke, 70, died on November 17, last year after he fell off his Etchell boat and was unable to inflate his lifejacket, which he was wearing inside out, near Eely Pt on Lake Wanaka. A green clip on the jacket, which serves as an indicator to the wearer that a CO2 cylinder that inflated the jacket had been fired, was missing, and it appeared the lifejacket had previously been deployed. 42 Professional Skipper January/February 2013 Chinese seed smugglers sent packing BORDER OFFICIALS SENT two Chinese air passengers packing after they tried to smuggle seeds through Auckland airport. The suspicious seeds were found after a Ministry for Primary Industries quarantine inspector became and sent them to have their luggage searched. The search unearthed 14 foil-wrapped packages of seeds that had been concealed under the inner soles of shoes, within a carton lining, in a handbag and in some wedding invitations. A police officer also conducted a personal search of one of the passengers after a MPI detector dog gave a positive indication when sniffing the pair. As a result of the seed find, immigration officials refused the husband and wife entry permission to the country and sent them back to Shanghai that night. The pair are unlikely to be granted visas to enter New Zealand in the future. ���The pair acted recklessly. They either ignored or failed to understand that the illegal importation of seeds could devastate New Zealand���s horticulture industry or native plant life,��� says MPI���s Craig Hughes, Manager North Passenger and Mail. WEAR THE DAMN LIFE JACKET! THE BODY OF well-known Wanaka man, 65-year-old Murray (Muzza) Austin Rivers, was recovered by police near the mouth of the Makarora River, at the head of Lake Wanaka. Rivers was the owner and skipper of a jet-boat that got into trouble while negotiating the Wilkin River, which flows into the Makarora River. While the jet-boat was moving through a section of fast water on the Makarora River, it hit a small gravel bar which threw two 23-year-olds off the boat and into the water. By the time they reached the bank, Rivers and his boat could not be seen. The two, one from Invercargill and one from the Wanaka area, walked through farmland to the Makarora village and raised the alarm. Life jackets were not worn by any of the jet-boat occupants. The Otago Regional Council website showed 102mm of rain fell in the Makarora area that week and water levels in the area rose sharply. Frustrated Queenstown harbourmaster Marty Black said his message to boaties was to ���wear the damn life jacket���. ���A flooded river, in a boat like that; it���s just common sense to wear bloody jackets.��� NZ Maritime Forum to bridge the gap to MARITIME NZ A NEW MARITIME sector group, the NZ Maritime Forum, was formally launched on September 24, in Wellington. The Forum has risen from the Sector Reference Group established by Maritime NZ to assist in the Value for Money and recent funding reviews conducted by Maritime NZ. Both sides saw value in the SRG and it was decided to not only continue with the group but to broaden its mandate. While the primary function of the Forum will be to continue to build a constructive relationship between the wider maritime sector and Maritime NZ, the Forum may also engage itself in policy areas that might fall outside the remit of Maritime NZ. One of the priorities of the Forum will be to raise the level of awareness of the important place that the maritime sector plays in both the NZ economy and across the community in general. The current membership of the Forum is: Julian Bevis International Container Lines Committee, Peter Busfield NZ Marine Industry Association, Tom Clark Seafood Industry Council, Jim Doyle NZ Shipping Federation, Sheryl Ellison NZ Shipping Federation, Michael Fitchett Fullers, Evan Freshwater Tourism Industry Association NZ, Keith Ingram Ed. Professional Skipper magazine, John Ireland Port Taranaki, Sean Kelly Western Workboats, Morris van Voornveld Shipping NZ, Jeremy Ward Marine Transport Association,Tim Wilson NZ Maritime School, Manukau Institute of Technology. Jim Doyle, Executive Director of the NZ Shipping Federation was elected Chair of the Forum and Julian Bevis International Container Lines Committee, was elected Deputy Chair.