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I think you previously posted the video about the interim report? I skimmed this video once I realised he was explaining a lot of things that were in the previous video.
Was there any significant new information? It sounds like the Commanding Officer was not trained (or at least not certified) for this vessel, I can't remember if that was in the previous video.
It does seem odd that we've had two ship groundings in the 6 months both caused by crew getting confused by the auto-pilot.
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. 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. There is way more detail then that but basically that is the TLDR.
It also doesn't say anything good about the helm and autopilot system that nobody noticed it was off.
In virtually any other similar system, human input will override the system. That's how it works in vehicles, that's how it works in aircraft, I'd have expected there to at least be an alarm that the autopilot was engaged.
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.
Most NZers would fail miserably at pronouncing Mercogliano, so 🤷