{"id":13197,"date":"2025-04-04T05:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13197"},"modified":"2025-04-04T05:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:48:04","slug":"fatal-boat-capsizing-highlights-failings-of-outdated-111-emergency-call-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13197","title":{"rendered":"Fatal boat capsizing highlights failings of outdated 111 emergency call system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boat capsize that claimed five lives off Kaik\u014dura has shown up failings in the outdated 111 emergency call system yet again.<\/p>\n<p>The boat of a bird-watching party\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/557065\/boat-that-capsized-killing-five-people-off-kaikoura-was-hit-by-whale-report-finds\">hit a whale off Goose Bay<\/a>\u00a0and turned over, trapping five of the 11 people in a fume-filled pocket underneath. They knocked on the hull for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The skipper up on the overturned hull called police but the 111 system caused &#8220;unnecessary delays&#8221; and risks.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when police tried to give ambulance the accident&#8217;s coordinates, a second fragmented tech system, called CARD, would not accept it because the sea is outside usual ambulance range.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, CARD produced &#8220;an error message&#8221;. The system has a years-long track record of similar outages as it is fragmented between police and ambulance, as RNZ reported in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Successive governments have been warned the 111 and CARD systems are flawed.<\/p>\n<p>But the capsize inquiry released on Thursday stated, &#8220;the emergency 111 system &#8230; introduces delays to the emergency response&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taic.org.nz\/inquiry\/mo-2022-206\">No action has been taken<\/a>\u00a0to address this safety issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) chief commissioner David Clarke said there were &#8220;delays in the system, there was restricted information flow and incompatibility of systems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it&#8217;s unlikely that any of these issues contributed to the outcome of the tragedy in this case, in other circumstances, these delays could be critical,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boat capsize that claimed five lives off Kaik\u014dura has shown up failings in the outdated 111 emergency call system yet again. The boat of a bird-watching party\u00a0hit a whale off Goose Bay\u00a0and turned over, trapping five of the 11 people in a fume-filled pocket underneath. They knocked on the hull for a few minutes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13199,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197\/revisions\/13199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}