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I-CATCHER — The Report That Read The Same

Charter fishing vessel, real incident — i-Catcher
8m aluminium pontoon charter fishing vessel · Goose Bay, Kaikōura, New Zealand · 10 September 2022
Source: TAIC Inquiry MO-2022-206 (final report)

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The Situation

You operate an 8m charter fishing vessel. Two things have landed on your desk this week: your inflatable lifejackets are due their mandatory two-yearly approved service, and your vessel's periodic commercial survey report has just come back. It's the start of the season and the boat is booked solid.

The Lesson

The whale strike was unavoidable. What happened afterward — who escaped and who didn't — was decided weeks earlier, by how seriously the lifejacket servicing and the survey report were actually taken.

Human Element

Nobody aboard the real i-Catcher could have prevented a whale surfacing under the hull. What this scenario tests is everything upstream of that moment — whether the safety-critical equipment and the survey process meant to catch a slow, invisible failure were actually given the scrutiny they needed, before the season even started.

Try the First Decision

Sending all your lifejackets to an approved servicing station costs real time and money mid-season. You've serviced them yourself before — repacking bladders, checking CO2 cylinders by eye — and they've always seemed fine. What do you do?

A. Send them to an approved station for proper servicing, even though it costs time and money you'd rather spend on the season

B. Service them yourself between trips, as you've done before — they've always seemed fine

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