Height of drillship
NZPA-Reuter Singapore A Singapore harbour Pilot has told a commission of inquiry that the master of an oil drillship which caused a cable-car disaster had told him the wrong height of .the vessel a few weeks before the accident.
The Pilot, Captain Raj Kumar Sama, said that the master of the 17,000-ton Eniwetok, whose name was not given in court, had told him that the height from the waterline to the top of its derrick was 50 metres, when it was really about 69 metres.
Port engineers earlier told the commission that the cableway was 60 metres above the water and no ship higher than 52 metres was allowed under it.
Two cable-cars plunged into the sea on January 29 when the Eniwetok’s steel tower snared the cables, killing seven people.
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Press, 26 May 1983, Page 9
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