About the same as allowing someone with 200 hours in a Cessna to drive a jumbo jet.
KJT blogging here finds moves by Maritime NZ to relax the requirements around some aspects that effect the safety of off-shore drilling for oil worrying.
"Maritime NZ have a road show going around the country with a proposal to make things cheaper for the offshore oil drilling industry.
Current requirements for STCW/SOLAS certification for crews and the vessel on oil rig tenders may be relaxed to allow inshore qualifications up to the new within 200 miles of the coast “Near sheltered waters limit”.
I.E. Off the East Coast or in the Great South Basin."
That's in our patch and KJT's warning should be of great interest to us.
