David White/Stuff Divers were required to free the ferry’s propeller of the lines. Subsequent emails between Auckland Transport officials showed the incident could have easily gone another way. “If the crew member had become caught in the line, there would likely have been a very different outcome to being stood down for a week,” ferry services manager Gareth Willis said.
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Ferry services at Northcote Point are sometimes cancelled due to the wharf’s exposed location. That sentiment was echoed by a Fullers360 marine manager who told Auckland Transport the incident “could have been much worse”.
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A MAN who died in his home from hypothermia could have been saved if he hadn’t been neglected by friends, a coroner concluded. Andrew Forrest, 49, was found dead by three friends who were concerned they hadn’t heard from him. Coroner James Newman, sitting in Preston, said Andrew, of Florence Street, Burnley, died from hypothermia after being left by two friends in a ‘confused, vacant’ state in a cold house which was overflowing with water. He added that if they had sought help for him, it would be likely he would be alive today and said that despite Andrew dying of natural causes from hypothermia, negligence played a part.