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WATERWAYS – Waterfront Business In brief… Waipa Delta runs out of steam A move from the Waikato River to the Hauraki Gulf has not prevented the two companies backing the replica paddle-steamer Waipa Delta from falling into receivership. The receiver, Justin Bosley of Corporate Finance, said secured and unsecured creditors were owed about $1.2 million and 13 staff had lost their jobs. The owner of the Waipa Delta, Mark Goudie, said the companies owed family investors $700,000, bank loans of $280,000 and his home's mortgage. "The original owners put the initial money into her and then I put $1 million into refurbishing her and I am going to end up with nothing," Goudie said. The boat is for sale. Note: Mark Goudie died from a serious illness in September. See his obituary in this issue. Rider rescues rare turtle A woman riding her horse along Kariotahi Beach, southwest of Auckland, who found an endangered olive ridley turtle floating in the water on September 26 called the Department of Conservation and said she thought it was dead. But marine ranger Martin Stanley went to the beach and said the turtle responded to a stimulus test. "So we picked it up and transported it to Kelly Tarleton's aquarium in Auckland." The adult male appeared to be uninjured but had goose barnacles on its shell, which indicated it had been floating for some time and was unable to dive for food. X-rays would show if it was the victim of marine pollution, such as ingesting plastic. Members of the public who see a stranded marine turtle should call 0800 DOC HOT (0800 362 468). Boaties broke every rule Two young brothers found apparently drunk, lost and out of fuel off the coast of the Bay of Plenty on September 25 "broke every single boating rule in the book," said Murray Whitehead of Coastguard Waihi Beach. The young men, aged 15 and 20, were heading from Mayor Island to Waihi Beach when they struck trouble. After the boy's family contacted Coastguard, units from Waihi Beach and Tauranga searched for about two hours before finding them between Karewa and A Beacon, off Matakana Island. They were very new boaties and were very lucky, Whitehead said. They had no local knowledge, they had old flares and didn't know how to use them, no VHF and no GPS. They had lifejackets but one was so old it had no straps. 46 Professional Skipper November/December 2011 US CONCEPT FOR UNMANNED SUB THE US NAVY is looking for concepts for a large, unmanned submarine able to operate in the open sea or in coastal waters and harbours on missions lasting more than 70 days, says our US correspondent, Hugh Ware. The missions will involve gathering intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data during over-the horizon sensor missions in coastal waters and harbours. The large displacement unmanned underwater vehicle, or LDUUV, would be launched from a pier and recovered ("door to door," as it were). The programme has two phases. In the first, hardware and software must be developed for missions lasting up to 30 days at depths of 30-120m. The Navy may provide a UUV prototype. In the second phase, missions would last more than 70 days without human interaction. The UUV must avoid all vessels in the area, detect stationary and moving objects and avoid them, detect and identify surface vessels and their intent, and avoid all fishing nets and gear. The programme may take five years. Passengers jump from stricken ferry MORE THAN 300 passengers had to be rescued from the Jet Raider, owned by the ferry company Fullers, on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf on August 27. Worried passengers had to clamber onto another Fullers ferry, the Starflyte, which came to the rescue, after an alarm warned of a fire in the engineroom. The Jet Raider had been busier than usual carrying passengers to Waiheke Island for the Winter Blues Festival. She was in the Motuihe Channel travelling between Auckland and Waiheke when she suddenly stopped. "We were probably 15 minutes out from Waiheke and there was just an almighty thud," said a passenger, Sean Geary. "It was pretty calm. It was quite interesting having to jump a couple of feet between the boats and wait for them to be close enough for people to jump between them," Geary said. "We heard after we'd transferred over that there'd been a fire." Northern fire communications shift manager Jaron Phillips said the ferry's master called the Rescue Co-ordination Centre to say there had been an engine fire but the automatic extinguishers had put it out. But the chief executive of Fullers, Douglas Hudson, said later there was no fire. "The engine's failed and in the process it's set off the fire alarms." Hudson said the cause of the problem was not yet known. Maritime New Zealand had been notified and the company would conduct its own investigation. MINISTER PRAISES ANTARCTIC SCIENCE ANTARCTIC RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN during the International Polar Year will improve New Zealand's approach to conservation, sustainable harvesting, climate change and other issues, says Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Phil Heatley. "Science collaboration is an important part of New Zealand's continuing engagement in Antarctica, Antarctic science and on Antarctic issues. The insights underpin our expertise and leadership in Antarctic science," he told an IPY symposium in Wellington on September 27. New Zealand's participation in the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources was an excellent example of how it was possible to achieve economic value within the Ross Sea region while ensuring sustainability and ecosystem protection within strict environmental protocols, he said. The IPY programme included a census of Antarctic marine life by the NIWA research vessel Tangaroa. "Not only did we learn more about fish stocks and how they interact with the rest of the ecosystem, but also we gained new insight into the drivers of biodiversity of the Antarctic."