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NZ dinghy skipper convicted
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NZ dinghy skipper convicted
A New Zealand man has been convicted after his ill-equipped dinghy sank and a passenger drowned in December 2005, according to Maritime New Zealand (MNZ). The agency reports that Sapo Muliipu of Hastings has been found guilty by a jury in the Napier District Court on a charge of operating the dinghy ‘in a manner causing unnecessary danger or risk’, after it capsized and his friend Tafaofale Fitimase, 32, drowned near the Clive River Mouth around midnight on 17 December 2005. The pair had been checking fishing nets when the dinghy began to take on water and was sw...Read More... Full Story »
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