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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be.

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Speaker 2: How much worse could it have been? I don't want

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Speaker 2: to speak too soon. A refloating mission is underway as

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Speaker 2: we go to wear but from what we know at

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Speaker 2: the stage, key we rail the inter islander, and honestly,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand might have just escaped a much, much, much

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Speaker 2: more serious disaster. So the other Teddy Fairy departed Picton

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Speaker 2: last night, and from what we understand about the timeline,

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Speaker 2: it almost immediately lost steering, so within about fifteen minutes

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Speaker 2: it had run aground. There are forty seven people on board,

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Speaker 2: most of them are crew, all of them are in

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Speaker 2: life jackets. Most importantly, all of them are safe and

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Speaker 2: for now at least the Fairy is water tight. As

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Speaker 2: of this minute, we are one minute past high tide

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Speaker 2: and picton high Tea and picked them was nine oh

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Speaker 2: eight am. It's currently nine oh nine. There are tugboats

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Speaker 2: on the scene and a refloating effort is underway. It's bad,

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Speaker 2: but again my reaction, again not wanting to speak too soon,

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Speaker 2: is at this stage one of tempered relief, and we

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Speaker 2: may have just dodged a far greater disaster. Imagine if

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Speaker 2: the Fairy had lost steering further out in the sounds

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Speaker 2: and had run aground late last night. Imagine if it

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Speaker 2: hadn't been perfectly still and calm. Imagine if it was

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Speaker 2: full of passengers school holidays kids. Imagine if it hadn't

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Speaker 2: stayed water tight. Imagine if it got into trouble at

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Speaker 2: a vital point and cook straight entering Wellington Harbor. There

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Speaker 2: are surely moments on that journey where, even if alarm

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Speaker 2: was raised, emergency vessels and tugboats might not have the

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Speaker 2: time to scramble and save the stricken ship. We could

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Speaker 2: be waking this morning to news of a maritime disaster

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Speaker 2: in one of the most beautiful parts of New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: a disaster that you know, makes the arena look like

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Speaker 2: a mere spilt cup of coffee. And most importantly, of course,

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Speaker 2: people could have been injured, people could have died. The

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Speaker 2: state and the future of the Fairies has been a

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Speaker 2: political football. The previous government signed a fixed price contract

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Speaker 2: to build two new Fairies, but after the Enter Island

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Speaker 2: Resilience project exploded in its projected costs, the new government

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Speaker 2: declined Kei Wei Rail's request for extra funding and Parliament

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Speaker 2: is recently it's just a couple of days ago, Transport

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Speaker 2: Minister Simeon Brown was highly critical of Kiwi Rail's maintenance

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Speaker 2: of the current fleet. Last night's event will obviously bring

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Speaker 2: all of this into sharp focus. Is this an event

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Speaker 2: that will justify new vessels in the new port infrastructure?

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Speaker 2: After all, let's hope the Fairy and her passengers can

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Speaker 2: be safely refloated, however long that takes. But clearly the

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Speaker 2: status quo is unsustainable. And just because we may have

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Speaker 2: avoided the absolute worst on this occasion, it doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: the next time won't be different. Jack d Right, Oh,

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Speaker 2: we have just this second got a message through from

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Speaker 2: the Marlboro District Council and from the authorities who are

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Speaker 2: working on the attempts to refloat the Artitidy this morning

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Speaker 2: they have abandoned those attempts. So in the last couple

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Speaker 2: of minutes they have decided to abandon those attempts and

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Speaker 2: instead send down divers to gather more information about how

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Speaker 2: badly the vessel has run aground. As it happens, my

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Speaker 2: beloved Auntie Barb Tame is a resident of nearby Waikawa.

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Speaker 2: As soon as I saw the news this morning. I

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Speaker 2: flicked her a message and she said, well, where do

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Speaker 2: you think I'm going. I'm going to take my bike

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Speaker 2: down the road get a view of the refloating effort

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Speaker 2: as the tugboats head out into the sounds today, and

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Speaker 2: she's with us. Now, Hi, Andy, Barb, it's Jack here.

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Speaker 2: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 3: Hi? Yeah, Hijack, I can hear you loud and clear.

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Speaker 2: Hey, so where are you at the moment?

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Speaker 3: So I'm with half of Victim up on a lookout

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Speaker 3: looking out over the over the sounds and over the ship.

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Speaker 3: Good views, but yeah, not a lot happening, and not

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Speaker 3: going to be a lot happening, as he just said.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, so we've just we've just heard of abandoned

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Speaker 2: the refloating efforts for now. But what can you see

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Speaker 2: around the around the art teedy itself?

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Speaker 3: So a couple of tugs I think, few pre preasure

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Speaker 3: boats having a bit of a look. But yeah, just

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Speaker 3: a couple of the local tugs which I thought looked

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Speaker 3: like they were hooking up to do something. But maybe

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Speaker 3: that's all all finished.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and whereabouts it has it run aground? Is it

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Speaker 2: like a straight shot for picton?

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Speaker 3: Well, it's doing very violently right instead of heading out

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Speaker 3: into the sound and then turning right to get to Wellington.

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Speaker 3: So it's very very close. It's great viewing for all

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Speaker 3: the pector knights up here. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what are the conditions like there at the moment?

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Speaker 3: Just starting to drizzle, but it's perfectly still in calm

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Speaker 3: and great skies, but perfect, perfect conditions for whatever they're attempting.

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Speaker 2: Next, how are people feeling about seeing seeing a vessel

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Speaker 2: of that size run aground?

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Speaker 3: What is a wee at? God snacked? But yeah, I haven't.

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Speaker 3: I sort of haven't really talked to talk to any

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Speaker 3: of the locals up here. I'm not local long enough myself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that works. It's like you've been there

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Speaker 2: five minutes until you've been there forty years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: But I mean there's obviously been a bit of concern

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Speaker 2: about the state of the fairies and things. I mean,

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Speaker 2: given given it such an area of natural beauty. You know,

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Speaker 2: is that do?

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Speaker 3: I mean?

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Speaker 2: Do you feel kind of anxious about about efforts to

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Speaker 2: refloat it?

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Speaker 3: I feel yes, it could be a big Yeah, that

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Speaker 3: could be a real worry. I always feel anxious when

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Speaker 3: I went on at myself not that long ago, and

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Speaker 3: there were various issues. So and I think all the

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Speaker 3: local people, you others still pretty much the same. Are

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Speaker 3: you guaranteed to get there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 2: Have they have someone announced to you guys that they've

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Speaker 2: abandoned it or the news?

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Speaker 3: I think that might be me because nobody's Yeah, I

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Speaker 3: don't know if anybody's I'm sure they're all listening to you, Jack,

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Speaker 3: but I'm not sure if anybody knows that yet.

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Speaker 2: That's good. You make sure everyone's got their iHeartRadio one

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Speaker 2: so they can get the very latest.

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Speaker 3: It's a bit wet now. I might have to go

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Speaker 3: home and come back later.

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Speaker 2: Can you just just one last thing from your vantage

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Speaker 2: point for the people who are on board the vessel

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Speaker 2: at the moment, If they're needing to get people on

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Speaker 2: and off safely, is that how complicated do you think

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Speaker 2: that's going to be.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's very slat and calm, so you know the

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Speaker 3: back end of the ship that's poking out into the

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Speaker 3: sound a bit. So whatever they do with people, I'm

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Speaker 3: sure they can work out. But it's not a matter

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Speaker 3: of just flopping off the front and down onto the beach.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's up into the sound. Hey, thank you so much,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, I hope everything's okay today and obviously we

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Speaker 2: really hope that they can get it back up and

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Speaker 2: floating without any damage or anything like that. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so do.

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Speaker 3: I okay, see you soon.

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Speaker 2: That's my auntie Barb Tame, who is joined by half

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Speaker 2: of picton overlooking the Marlborough Sounds. Is that if it

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Speaker 2: to work out exactly what's going to happen with the

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Speaker 2: Utter Teddy into island, a faery continues this morning, we're

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Speaker 2: going to keep you up to speed with the very

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Speaker 2: latest from the authorities as that comes through this morning.

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Speaker 2: So at the moment, authorities say they want to put

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Speaker 2: divers in the water, they want to have a really

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Speaker 2: good look at the hull of the ship in the daylight.

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Speaker 2: That they want to observe the vessel Arter Teddy as

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Speaker 2: she goes through the full tide, just to see what

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Speaker 2: sort of level of buoyancy she's got. That's come from

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Speaker 2: the Marlboro District Council Mayor Nadine Taylor, who's among those

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Speaker 2: who's been sitting in on a morning briefing on the situation,

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Speaker 2: say that the divers are going to be investigating the

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Speaker 2: seabed underneath the vessel as well. Quote they want to

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Speaker 2: understand exactly where the hell is touching the sea bed

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Speaker 2: and get a good understanding of the underlying ground she's

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Speaker 2: sitting on, says Nelson District Council MEA Nadine Taylor. Like

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Speaker 2: I say, we'll bring you up to speed with any

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Speaker 2: updates as soon as they come through.

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