Misread nav aids behind launch wreck

Posted by Dale Crisp
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26 February, 2025

THE COXSWAIN of the Port Phillip Sea Pilot launch Corsair had misinterpreted the aids to navigation on Shortland Bluff and navigated to the west of their intended course through the entrance to Port Phillip when the vessel was wrecked in October 2023, the ATSB has found.

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Posted by Dale Crisp

Dale Crisp is a contributing editor at DCN and a distinguished maritime journalist and commentator with a career spanning over three decades

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