Cruise company dives on wreck of Lermontov
PA Wellington C.T.C. Cruises, Ltd, the company which brought the Soviet cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov to New Zealand a year ago, will not say why it was diving on the wreck last month.
Early in February the company chartered the Auckland diving tender Glindberg and went to the site of the sinking in Port Gore.
A Marlborough Harbour Board spokesman then confirmed that C.T.C. Cruises had applied for and had received permlssion to dive on the wreck.
CT.C’s New Zealand representative, Mr Lesley Goss, said from Auckland that the dive was not a matter for public scrutiny.
“I am not interested in talking about it at all. The company wanted to retrieve some of its property, that’s all,” Mr Goss said.
The Mikhail Lermontov sank on February 16 last year after grounding'on rocks. Salvors, under J instructions from the ship’s Soviet owner, have'«already cleared out the ship’s bond store and recovered its safes. ’
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