ISSU DECEMBER E 82 THE REPORT 2017 The Magazine of the International Institute of Marine Surveying TO BE OR NOT TO BE ... AN EXPERT WITNESS ROUND UP OF 2017 SURVEYING VANUATU - A NIGHTMARE! THE P&I INSURER’S ROLE IN SALVAGE THE REPORT The Magazine of the International Institute of Marine Surveying December 2017 • Issue 82 Contents 04 • EDITOR’S LetteR 05 • THE PRESIDENT’S COLumN 06 • IIMS ORGANISATION AND STRuctuRE 07 • MARINE News 24 10 • SAFETY BRIEFINGS 14 • MEMBER News 19 • IIMS UAE BRANCH 5TH BIENNIAL 58 CONFERENCE REPORT 49 24 • “LIFE AT IIMS FEATURE is NEVER DULL” YOUR BUSINESS: 29 • SURVEYORS PLAY 60 • TO THE New GENERAL DATA A KEY ROLE IN PROtectiON REGULATION cHALLENGING THE 64 • HOW FIT FOR HULL INSURANCE busiNESS ARE YOU? LANDSCAPE 38 66 • WRITING A STRATEGIC 32 • THE PROBLEM OF OIL 46 • GIPSY MOTH PLAN FOR YOUR busiNESS wASHED OVERBOARD sAILS AGAIN fROM HYDRAULIC decK EQUIPMENT... 49 • FOCUS ON EXPERT 69 • NEW PRODUCTS WITNESS WORK: 38 • THE P&I INSURER’S is IT FOR YOU? 73 • WHO SAID THAT? ROLE IN SALVAGE A COLLectiON OF SAILING, 52 • New STANDARDS FOR seA AND SHIPPING QUOTES 43 • DO YOU CARE MARINE DIESEL FUEL AND SAYINGS... eNOUGH TO SHARE? SHARING DATA TO 58 • SURVEYING VANUATU... 75 • A DAY IN THE LIFE OF... REDUCE AccideNts A SURVEYOR’S NIGHTMARE! PeteR BROAD The Report • December 2017 • Issue 82 | 3 Editor’s Letter Dear IIMS Member this edition. Watch out as we flesh you trade with EU organisations out the plans in full and I hope to it affect you too. The fines are Welcome to the last Report meet you next year in person or potentially crippling. See page 60. Magazine of 2017. It has been quite online. In particular, I am excited to a year, successful on the business announce a four day joint IIMS and The article on to be or not to be an front for sure, but one that will be eCMID seminar to be held in Sydney, expert witness is worth a read. This remembered for many reasons! You Australia from 31 July to 3 August can be a lucrative area of business can read my very personal review around the Sydney Boat Show. for surveyors, but are you sure what of the highs and lows of life at IIMS it entails? See page 49. and MSA during 2017 elsewhere in One of the joys of editing this this edition. publication and searching for Some of us are older enough content is that I encounter some (just in my case) to remember the Feedback from the last issue interesting individuals who I would round the world sailing antics of Sir of The Report was pleasing to not usually meet. Rama Chandran, Francis Chichester in his beloved read. In particular, some readers who I met in Singapore earlier this Gipsy Moth IV. I am grateful to IIMS commented on the new layout year, is one such example. What a member, Capt Mark Souter, who of the news pages and how fresh mine of information he is. His article stumbled across the original Gipsy and clean they look. Your feedback on hull machinery claims makes Moth, bought her and has written matters to us, so thank you. sobering but essential reading. an article about his escapades. Read the article on page 46. November proved to be a Peter Broad MIIMS, based in South busy month for training and Korea, is the subject in the Day in On a lighter note, we have pulled conferencing. In the members a Life of. He is engaged in some together fifty quotes with a nautical news area you can read about the ground breaking LNG projects in theme, some from famous people training that took place for yacht the huge yards out there. He speaks other not so. It seems there is plenty and small craft surveyors, both in openly about his life and work. of wisdom! Scotland and near Portsmouth. During late November we held a I make no apology for including Enjoy the other content not practical two day training event for three short articles relating to referenced here in my Editor’s Certifying Authority members when business management themes in letter in what is another packed we clambered beneath a windfarm this issue. Most surveyors I know, Report Magazine. fast crew vessel in south Devon to especially those who work alone, conduct a workboat coding survey. get so wrapped up in surveying Survey well. Fascinating. And we wrapped up that some areas of business with the 5th Biennial IIMS UAE management get overlooked. Branch Conference, held in the Whether we like it or not, there is splendour of the Sheraton Jumeriah some potentially onerous new EU Beach Resort hotel, Dubai, just a legislation coming in May 2018. It is few days ago. Check out the review called the General Data Protection Mike Schwarz from page 19. On the subject of Regulation and you ignore it at your Chief Executive Officer training, you will find a provisional peril. It affects many of us, no matter International Institute of Marine Surveying calendar of IIMS events for 2018 in if you are outside the EU or not. If President: Mr Adam Brancher (FIIMS) Chief Executive Officer: Mr Mike Schwarz Vice President: Capt Zarir Irani (FIIMS) Immediate Past President: Capt Bertrand Apperry (FIIMS) Deputy Vice President: Mr Geoff Waddington (FIIMS) Head Office Team Mrs Camella Robertson Membership Secretary Miss Kate Davey ........Management Accountant and Senior Book Keeper Mrs Tania Bernice ......Certifying Authority Administrator Miss Elly Bryant .........Accounts Support Administrator Mr David Parsons ......Administrative, Services and Social Media Co-ordinator Mrs Hilary Excell ........Marine Surveying Academy Business Manager Miss Cathryn Ward ....Education, Training & Events Co-ordinator Pui Si Chung .......MSA Accreditation Scheme Administrator Mr Craig Williams......Graphic Designer Sharon Holland ...MSA Events & Course Co-ordinator Tel: +44 (0) 23 9238 5223 | Email: [email protected] | IIMS, Murrills House, 48 East Street, Portchester, Hampshire, PO16 9XS, UK | www.iims.org.uk © The International Institute of Marine Surveying 2017 - The Institute and authors accept no responsibility for any opinions, statements or errors made in any article, feature or letter published in this Magazine. 4 | The Report • December 2017 • Issue 82 The President’s Column Dear Member opportunity cost this imposes on me AMSA is a government agency. I and the 250 surveyors nationally. cannot imagine that an Australian My week started really well. government committed to red Attending an Australian Maritime This awesome IT system would tape reduction and IT innovation Safety Authority surveyors’ require us to fully populate a would be best pleased with this workshop I discovered that an IT vessel record for an existing vessel, approach by one of their agencies. system they have worked on for as apparently AMSA is unable about the last four years was going to extract this information from So, on top of running a business to impose an extra $63,000.00 current records they hold. Then that in the last year did upwards (best estimate) of costs on my every survey we conduct will of 1000 surveys, and personally business year on year. Extrapolate have to be entered into a manual, actively surveying, (12 vessels this across the group of surveyors on-line interface, much of which this week as I have staff away), I work with (about 250 accredited would then be manually checked I’m forced into the fray to get persons in Australia including by someone somewhere before the attention of the powers many IIMS members) and this is an survey certificates could be issued that be, the media and all other extra $1.26Million per year of costs for vessels we have surveyed. In stakeholders and try and get this directly to surveyors. addition, we would have to upload train wreck of a service delivery a raft of horrendous forms… I had model properly configured. This is on top of the survey fees we to look at my watch and double have to charge - a cost to industry check the year we are in, because I In life you have a choice - to be a which was not included in the was having flashbacks to the 1970’s. bystander or to be an upstander. recent ‘consultation’ they did; a As your President I could not be consultation which quite rightly When we pointed out (as we anything other than the latter. got roundly panned by industry had back in March) that we run a and forced a delay in the system centralised QMS/administrative Who says surveying is a boring job? until July of next year. AMSA did support system and that the system Have a great holiday period everyone. not mention survey fees then, only they had built did not allow anyone that it needed c.$23 Mil to run its other than individuals to log in, own bureaucracy, which was to we were told to work round it by be extracted from vessel owners sharing log in’s and passwords, but and operators. More bureaucracy just not to tell them about it. At this Mr Adam Brancher President is just what the world needs right point my jaw hit the ground as you International Institute of Marine Surveying now. Don’t even start me on the can well imagine. Email: [email protected] The Report • December 2017 • Issue 82 | 5 IIMS Organisation & Structure Directors of IIMS and Management Board Members Other Management Board Members Capt Allen Brink HonFIIMS Capt Zarir Irani FIIMS, Vice President, Regional Director Mr Adam Brancher FIIMS, President Capt John Noble FIIMS, Chairman Administration & Education Capt Chris Kelly FIIMS, Chairman Professional Assessment Committee Mr Paul Homer HonFIIMS, Chairman Standards Mr Fraser Noble FIIMS, Chairman Certifying Authority & Finance Mr John Excell FIIMS, Chairman of Yacht & Small Craft Surveying Mr John Heath FIIMS, Technical Response Team Mr John Kilhams Mr Geoff Waddington FIIMS, Deputy Vice President Regional Directors Mr Pervez Kaikobad, India Eng.