Passenger saw light
PA Wellington The Mikhail Lermontov was passing between a navigation light and the headland of Cape Jackson when she struck rocks, one of her Australian passengers said yesterday. Mr Barry Saul said he and his wife, Leila, were in a lounge enjoying a wine-tasting and Russian dancing when the ship hit rocks with', two enormous bumps. “There was a light out on the starboard side and we were very close in to the cape — maybe about 500 yards,” Mr Saul, of Bundaberg, Queensland. “We got the impression we were between the light and the cape,” he said. The Marlborough Harbourmaster, Captain Don Jamison, was "technically a passenger" when the ship struck rocks. The Marlborough Harbour Board’s chairman, Mr Bruno Dalliessi, told a board meeting in Blenheim yesterday that Captain Jamison had piloted the ship out of Queen Charlotte Sound and had stayed aboard the vessel because he was going with her to Fiordland where he was to resume his pilot duties.
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