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Lindsay Sturt News

10 Jun 2015

Dive Operator Sentenced after Propeller Death

A New Zealand dive operator and skipper have been sentenced for the February 2014 death of a diver struck by a propeller while on a trip to the Poor Knights Islands, Maritime New Zealand announced. Whangarei diving company The Dive Spot Limited has been fined $50,000 and co-director and skipper Mark Andrew Barnes fined $25,000 after the death of diver Bruce Porter on February 7, 2014. Reparations of $50,000 and $30,000 are also to be paid by The Dive Spot Limited and Barnes, respectively. Maritime New Zealand prosecuted the company and Barnes under sections 15 and 19 of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 for failing to take all practicable steps to ensure that no action or inaction at work caused harm to any person.

17 Aug 2012

New Zealand Checks Jet-boat Drivers' Competency

The first jet boat drivers in the country to be licensed under a change to maritime rules receive their licenses in Queenstown. The New Zealand jet boating industry has 42 operators carrying more than 370,000 passengers a year. Associate Transport Minister Simon Bridges and Maritime New Zealand deputy director Lindsay Sturt presented the licenses to 10 drivers, representing 10 different operations, at a function at the Shotover Jet base at Arthur’s Point. The new licence, as well as on-going competency checks for all drivers, is part of the Maritime Rule Part 82: Commercial Jet Boat Operations – River. It came into effect on 2 August 2012…