The operators of a fishing boat that sank off Banks Peninsula in 2015, killing three crew members, have been ordered to pay more than $700,000 to the victims’ families, Maritime NZ has announced. Maritime NZ filed charges against the boat’s operators, Ocean Fisheries Ltd, under the Health and Safety in Employment Act (1992). John Bisset/Stuff Jared Husband was one of three fishermen who died when the Jubilee sank in October 2015. MYLES HUME/STUFF Sergeant Phil Simmonds speaking to media about the recovery of two of three crewmen from the sunken FV Jubilee. Since the sinking of the Jubilee, Ocean Fisheries Ltd has fitted high water alarms to its vessels and installed extra pumps in the fish rooms.

Source: Stuff September 16, 2020 04:52 UTC