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  FLASHLIGHT - December 2002            Edition No: 15

(Past editions can be viewed on http://www.asiaconference.biz)

"Marine Surveying is a tough job. It demands a high level of fitness and stamina. It requires keen observation, scrupulous honesty, an eye for detail, an open mind and ears, a closed mouth and common sense" (John Guy)

*** May 2003 be a prosperous year for all our readers and contributors. ***
May your appointments be profuse, within you capabilities and invoices paid in a reasonable time.


CONTENTS (for full stories, select a headline)

 

At the Bow

FLASHLIGHT is a free monthly emailed newsletter for Marine Surveyors. It is circulated to anybody who wishes to receive a copy, eg, Marine Surveyors, P&I Clubs, their correspondents, Underwriters, Professional Institutes, Admiralty Lawyers, etc. Please pass it on to any of your contacts who you feel might be interested in receiving it. If you do not wish to be included in the circulation list, please contact the Editor at the email address below. Past editions can be viewed on http://www.asiaconference.biz Letters, opinions and articles on our profession are welcomed for including in the newsletter.

New members this month.

Mauro Cavina of Brazil Marine Surveyors, Rio de Janeiro
Terry Tupper, Bluewater Delivery & Survey, West Sacramento, California, USA.
Bob Ptak, Lakeshore Professional Marine Surveys, LLC, Jenison, MI, USA
William Babcock, Sitka, AK 99835, USA

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Spindrift

Bulker safety plans opposed by Owners

Concerns are growing that some shipowner and flag state groups are preparing to oppsoe IMO and Class plans for improving bulk carrier safety.

Japanes Owners last month announced that tehy consider the proposed introduction of double hull requirements and upgraded hatchcover strength rules for existing tonnage would impose too much of a cost burden on operators, claiming that it coust as much as US$1 million per ship to comply with the rules, arguing that improved maintenance and stricter class surveys would have a more marked impact on safety. The proposals are also being oppsed by Greek Owners.

It has been suggested that IACS could bow to Owners' pressure to dilute the propsed requirements to strengthen hatchcovers on existing bulkers.

Out of order

European shipbuilding is facing extinction as a result of unfair competition from foreign yards, the head of the EU metal workers' union warned last month. Richard Kuhlmann told a converence in Italy that the EU Commission had failed to take adequate action to prevent the number of EU shopyard jobs falling from 400,000 to 100,000 over the last 25 years.

Cyprus clean-up

The Cypriot register claims to have made significant progress in improving the flag's safety record with its PSC detention rate cut to below the average for all flags. Cyprus has noe appointed 32 inspectors to check standards on its ships in 23 ports around the world, but is still set to miss the EU deadline of 31 December for full compliance with EU rules.

Masters jailed

A Turkish Master has been jailed for 50 months and a Russian Master sentenced to 20 months in prison after a court in Istanbul ruled that they were both responsible for a collision between a cargoship and a ferry in teh Bosporus Strait in June in which four people died.

Sell-off

The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), the country's biggest shipowner with 94 ships, is set to be privatised soon following the sale of 51% of the Government's shares to an unidentified investor.

Engineer sentenced

A Korean Chief Engineer was jailed for three months for making false entries in the Oil Record Book (ORB) of the car carrier Cygnus while the ship's assistant engineer was placed on probation for two years after checks on the vessel found a flexible hose had bee fitted to bypass the oily water separator. The Chief Engineer of the bulk carrier Rubin Stellas was also jailed for one year and a day after the USCG discovered that he had directored other crew members to sishcarge oily waste overboard and subsequently falsified entries in the ORB. The US Justice Department has warned that it will continue to take a tough approach on any cases of delibarate dumping and false records.

Global Mariner

An accidente investigation by the MAIB has failed to determine exactly why the former ITF compaign ship 'Global Mariner' sank in the Orinoco River in August 2000. The 12,778 GRT UK flagged dry cargo ship foundered after a collision with the 7,366 GRT Cyprus registered general cargoship 'Atlantic Crusader' barely 10 minutes after leaving a berth at the port of Matanzas which struck the port side and flooded No 2 hold. There were no injuries and all 32 crew safely evacuated the vessel. The MAIB commented that both vessels did not have Voyage Data Recorders making confirmation of the exact positions of the two vessels difficul to
confirm.

(Ed: The Master of 'Atlantic Crusader' will probably have been added to the Christmas card list of many substandard ship operators!)

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New rise in ship raids

The IMB has reported an increase in the number of ship attacks in the first nine months of 2002 to an all time high of 271, compared with 253 during the corresponding period of 2001. The IMB has urged ship owners to fit 9,000 Volt fences around their vessels to deter unauthorized boarders, believed to be the most effective answer in preventing boarding of vessels carrying non-flammable cargoes. Devised by a Dutch firm, the Secure-Ship system is a collapsible electric fence surrounding the ship that uses a 9,000 non-lethal pulse to deter boarding. If the fence is tampered with an alarm is triggered, activating floodlights and
a siren.

(Ed: As the pirates often murder crew members, why not make it lethal?)

(Courtesy of NUMAST Telegraph)

Engineer going home after two years

THE Mission to Seafarers in Dubai is flying Russian chief engineer Sergiy Kovalchuk home to spend Christmas with a family he has not seen for nearly two years. He will be the last of eight crewmen repatriated after a long-drawn-out battle with UAE-based Arabian Tankers. The salaries of 32 seafarers aboard Arabian Tankers' bitumen carriers Al Baraka, Ashphalt 1 and Asphalt 2, stranded in Sharjah and Ajman, have not been paid for up to two years. Total dues are estimated at about $300,000. "We would not be alive if it were not for the Mission," said Mohan Pillai, chief officer on Asphalt 1, one of ten seafarers speaking to Fairplay. The Mission provides stranded crews with food, water and bunkers, running up over $60,000 over the past year. The Mission's Rev tephen Miller said that over the past 11 months more than 18 vessels had been abandoned in the region, most carrying at least ten crew members. Most vessels are sub-standard. As Gulf states push closer to Port State Control giving authorities greater powers regarding seafarers rights, it is hoped that next Christmas will be a merrier one.

(Ed: If you come across a substandard vessel where the crew are in distress, The Mission to Seaman should be your first telephone call!)

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Contributions

The article on PI insurance last month, from Victoria Hughes of Galatea Underwriting, stimulated many comments agreeing with Victoria's views. We hope to continue with this theme next month by including two salutary tales of problems surveyors have experienced in their careers which should be of interest both to the surveyor employee and employer.

Further to the article on Coatings in our September 2002 issue, we believe this article will be of interest to our readers, reproduced with kind permission of NewsLink, newsletter of SCMS.

Optically Active Coating System (OACS®) For Protective Coating Defect detection.

by Bill Copper of Luminous Technologies Ltd.

1. The Problem

Since the introduction of OPA 90 the cost of repair in service for ship owners has been steadily climbing, with figures between $50-100 per sq m often being quoted. On a VLCC with around 250,000 sq m of ballast tank area this could mean at least $1.2 million for complete refurbishment against a background of poor trading conditions.

The total inspection time using conventional methods is set to increase as the move from tar-based to tar-free, light-coloured coating products, along with recent ship structural failures, has, for ship owners, shipyards and classification societies highlighted the need for better quality coatings for ballast tanks. Some papers already indicate that inspection time can take up to 14% of total coating time at new building.

In service the classification society surveyors already have to work hard to survey the structure and machinery and are now faced with the additional burden of inspecting the coatings in the ballast tanks, a task they are often incompletely trained to do. For the US Navy in particular, the annual M&R bills have been under pressure for many years. The need to maximise the operational time of the vessels and reduce costly maintenance work has led to a desire to improve the performance of the coatings and the need for early warning of coating failures or poor application.

Improved performance and better monitoring of tank coatings is estimated to be worth about $2.3 billion to the USN over the next 20 years. One of the key criteria is the time required to inspect ballast tank coatings at both new building and in service. This is being compounded by the interest shown by the classification societies in these critical areas. Thus, owners and yards are faced with tougher inspection regimes and greater pressure to ensure the correct application and performance of the coating.

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2. A Solution

Our solution to this specific problem and to any other engineering situation requiring a protective coating systems whether marine or otherwise, is a system that will make the coating and inspection process at construction and in service easier. It will also reduce the total inspection and touch-up time, improve the quality of the application and the performance in service as well as make it easier for the applicator (painter) to monitor the quality of his own work. The concept is as follows:
The surface to be coated is thoroughly cleaned and inspected in accordance with the required standard.

• If a one coat system is employed, it contains a proprietary optically active additive (OAA).
• If a two coat system is used, the first or both coats can contain our OAA.
• If a three coat system is used, the first or indeed all the coats can contain our OAA.

A specialised portable UV light is used to facilitate the application and inspection of the coating thickness and completeness / integrity. The reaction of the proprietary additive in the coating activated by the UV Light enables both the Applicator (even when wet and being applied) and the Inspector (when the paint is dry) to see in detail the thickness of the coat and any imperfections such as pinholes etc. This can allow the applicator to correct any defects during application and subsequently the inspector can verify whether further correction is required. The inspections can be recorded to provide a permanent record of the application or the state of the coating at a particular point in time.

The first coat is inspected with the specialised UV light as noted above, and this inspection is made easier and quicker as areas of over/under application, pinholes or other defects are easily identified. The use of the system enables the applicator to gauge the relative thickness of coating, and the inspector will be more able to assess the coating thickness from the variation of light intensity, and to more easily target suspect areas.

The second or subsequent coal (not containing our OAA or containing one of another colour) is applied, and the inspection process repeated with the UV light again being used to indicate areas of over or under application, pinholes, defects etc.

In the first coat, insufficient application and pinholes will appear as dull or black spots. In the second (without OAA) coat this will appear as a bright spot against the dark background, and in the case of an OAA second coat, there will be a discernible colour difference.

During the inspection process a systematic record of each coated and inspected area can be made using a photographic recording device. These permanent records will be of great use to not only shipyards and vessel owners, but also to insurance companies, classification societies, paint companies and paint contractors.

Similarly, during routine maintenance inspections, the system's inspection procedures would be used to determine the condition of the coating, and to record any remedial work required or carried out. The system will considerably improve the quality of, and shorten, the inspection time, as well as improve in service performance by ensuring a better quality of the first time application.

The benefits are:

Better quality application;
Very quick inspection at new building, in service, and even during application;
Identification of inadequate coating (both over and under application);
Visual indication of failure/wear during service;
The Photographic Recording System would aid in any potential dispute during the life-span of the coating system;
Rapid improvement in worker skills.

This system would not only save considerable labour and time during new building but also considerable sums of money by enabling better in service maintenance of the coating system.

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3. The System

Luminous Technology Ltd. has developed a total system which includes a proprietary raw material additive that:

• Is particularly sensitive to specialised UV lighting;
• Is safe to handle and apply;
• Is a raw material that can be readily formulated into a variety of coating systems including water based, solvent based and solvent free systems;
• Is supplied as a proprietary Luminous Paste comprising various optically active metal compounds; Is compatible in a variety of colours:

• Is cost effective - typical addition level of between 0.5 and 2%.
• Is recordable;
• Is comprised of a Raw Material in a Coating, a Specialised Light Source, a Recording Device and will soon include a Dry Film Thickness (DFT) measurement device.

4. Uses

This protective coating system technology can he applied to all surfaces used in engineering processes including : Marine Applications; Offshore Applications; Aeronautic Applications; Stress Detection and Weld Lxamination; Any applications which require Protective Coatings; Heat detection; Concrete Pipelines; Non-conductivc surfaces etc.

(Ed: It would appear that, together with all the other equipment we have to carry around, we will now have to carry a UV detector!)

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Scuttlebut

Requirements for Carrying Noxious Substances

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has adopted a new Regulation 16 of MARPOL73/78 Annex II, and amended Regulation 26 of MARPOL 73/78 Annex I. Regulation 16 of Annex II requires that any new and existing ship of 150gt or over, which is certified to carry noxious liquid substances (NLS), must carry onboard an approved Shipboard Marine Pollution Emergency Plan for Noxious Liquid Substances, by January 1, 2003. To assist, Guidelines for the Development of Shipboard Marine Pollution Emergency Plans For Oil and/or Noxious Liquid Substances, are published as MEPC.85(44)

IMO adopts comprehensive maritime security measures

Conference of Contracting Governments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974: 9 - 13 December 2002

A new, comprehensive security regime for international shipping is set to enter into force in July 2004 following the adoption by a week-long Diplomatic Conference of a series of measures to strengthen maritime security and prevent and suppress acts of terrorism against shipping. The Conference, held at the London headquarters of the International
Maritime Organization (IMO) from 9 to 13 December, was of crucial significance not only to the international maritime community but the world community as a whole, given the pivotal role shipping plays in the conduct of world trade. The measures represent the culmination of just over a year's intense work by IMO's Maritime Safety Committee and its Intersessional Working Group since the terrorist atrocities in the United States in September 2001.

The Conference was attended by 108 Contracting Governments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention, observers from two IMO Member States and observers from the two IMO Associate Members. United Nations specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental international organizations also sent observers to the Conference.

The Conference adopted a number of amendments to the 1974 Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS), the most far-reaching of which enshrines the new International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code). The Code contains detailed security-related requirements for Governments, port authorities and shipping companies in a mandatory section (Part A), together with a series of guidelines about how to meet these requirements in a second, non-mandatory section (Part B). The Conference also adopted a series of resolutions designed to add weight to the amendments, encourage the application of the measures to ships and port facilities not covered by the Code and pave the way for future work on the subject.

For further information see:
www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=583&doc_id=2689

Blast Blame

An officer’s failure to follow correct tank-cleaning and gas-freeing procedures has been blamed for an explosion and fire on a Singapore-flagged VLCC that led to the deaths of 4 crew members last June. A Flag-state inquiry report published in October ’02 said standard operating procedures had not been followed during the washing and ventilating of a tank on the 241,168 dwt HENG SAN.

Fairplay Solutions

With a dearth of literature available to marine surveyors on their activities and responsibilities, it is good to report that 'Fairplay Solutions' is still alive and kicking. This publication monthly publishes incidents and accidents reported by marine surveyors with background, causes, consequences and ways of preventing reoccurrences. Well worth a read if you get chance as we can all learn from the case histories and articles.

Damnet

Surveyors can also contribute their experiences to Dammet on the web at: www.damnet.org/ where you have an opportunity to contribute to a database of information on marine incidents.

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Insurance News

Class Attack on Insurers

Marine insurers have been attacked by the head of a major classification society for ‘failing to forge a link in the safety chain’. Speaking at the International Union of Marine Underwriters conference in New York in September, American Bureau of Shipping president Robert Somerville accused insurers of being ‘absent in action’ in the war against substandard shipping.

The ABS chief said most underwriters seemed desperate simply to grab any business, often at ruinous rates, and were unwilling to levy extra premiums on high-risk operators. He urged them to have the guts to reject shoddy owners.

Prestige repercussions

Many of the ships on the European Union’s blacklist issued after the Prestige disaster have liability cover outside the industry’s main mutuals, it has been revealed.

An analysis by industry experts shows a mixed picture in insurance terms, as it does reputationally, with some owners described as highly respected but others running inferior ships. A small number of the vessels are reported to have been scrapped before the list was drawn up. Of the 66 ships it is understood that 43 have P&I cover outside the International Group of P&I Clubs while the remainder are with leading providers. Sources said that seven were with North of England, six with UK Club, five with Skuld, two with West of England, two with Steamship and one with the American Club. Managers at the clubs, which all claim to be deeply quality conscious, are certain to be asked for an explanation of how the ships came to be on their books.

It is likely to be argued that those involved had acceptable claims histories and the owners had good records. Many of the non-group ships will be with P&I providers that work on a fixed premium basis. Most or all of them are considered to work to high standards. One advantage of coverage with the main mutuals is that they have the ultimate protection of a very comprehensive reinsurance contract placed at Lloyd’s and with other top carriers.

Industry sources suspect that a handful may be without any clear P&I cover, which could make achieving financial recoveries extremely difficult in the event of a casualty that resulted in pollution or other serious damage. Commercial repercussions for the ships, most of them oil and chemical tankers and dry bulk carriers, could be serious as their trading range could be limited now that they have been branded “very dangerous”.

Some commentators say there was a strong political element in the ships chosen, with none flagged in an EU state but 26 in Turkey, which is struggling to overcome opposition to its bid for EU membership.

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Epistles

Dear Mike,

After 32 years surveying in South America with the exception of a four year break between 1978-82 when LR transferred me to the platforms and the oil rigs in the North Sea and Norway. I have decided to retire now that I have found an ideal replacement to contiunue my work and who can offer the same service to my clients.

I have travelled the length and breadth of South America including both coast-lines from Punta Arenas in the south to Porto Cabello in the north, including the Amazon & Paraguay rivers. The last fourteen and half years I have been an Independent Consultant working out of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

My successor is Capt. Bev. Dyke who has already had five years experience in Venezuela and seven years working in Brazil. He can be contacted at the following : Fax: 00 55 35 3295 3696, Tel: 00 55 21 9637 6378 and e-mail vssc_br@yahoo.co.uk

Best regards

Alistair Montgomery

PS. Last week I surveyed one 150,000 dwt bulk carrier and a 164,000 dwt OBO at Sao Luis in the north of Brazil to go out in a blaze of glory to end my surveying career.

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People

This section of our newsletter is intended for those looking for jobs and those looking for people. It is also hoped to include information of movements of people in our business.

We hear that Henneke HEY of Capt. Klaus Foerster, Hamburg, Germany, has retired after 40 years as a cargo surveyor working with only three firms:
Moller Adjusters in Caracas, Venezuela.
Gellatly, Hankey & Co., Lloyd's Agents in Hamburg.
Capt. Klaus Foerster in Hamburg.

We wish him well in his retirment. May nobody call you at 3 in the morning ever again!

The grass is always greener ......

Those of us in private, independent practice, wondering where the next job will come from, whether we will ever get a holiday and if we will manage to have a pension, often envy those in the public service doing a similar job. If you think the grass is greener in the public service, take a look at the following web page. It makes interesting reading and is an eye opener as to how the public servant is being forced to become more efficient.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/publicvoices/story/0,11803,670408,00.html

Many of us in the profession are not far from retirement and often wonder what happened to the people we went to school with and trained with at marine college. For those of you wishing to find some of your old buddies, take a look at the 'Friends Reunited' web page (www.friendsreunited.co.uk/). Here you can register some personal information, together with your school/college and the year you left to go on to greater things. You can also enter your nickname in school, which class you were in, your mates' names and what you've done since leaving. You may be one day surprised to receive a message out of the blue from an old school chum.

If your school or college is not there, you can contact the web master and have it included. There are reportedly 8 million people registered on the page and some of us have been lucky enough to have reunions with people we have not seen for 40+ years. Riversdale Technical College in Liverpool is one of the marine training establishments listed on the
page.

Those of you who wish to forget your school/college days or fellow classmates can ignore this message!

When you are next travelling overseas on a job, why not contact Seafacs and let your clients know where you are to increase your chances of obtaining more work and cutting the clients expenses.

SIR ? Seafacs Information & Research PO Box 317, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL8 6DP telephone: 01707 334192 fax: 01707 324615 email: seafacs@sir.co.uk web: www.sir.co.uk

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Web Sites

If your (marine surveying) company has a web site, let us know and we will try to mention it. Below are some web pages we believe might be useful to marine surveyors.

www.imo.org
International Maritime Organisation web page. Keep up to date with new conventions.

www.lrfairplay.com
Your readers might like to know that we offer a free-access website database on our homepage at www.lrfairplay.com Scroll down the home page until you see the heading 'Free Access' appear on the left hand side. Clicking on the words 'shipping sites' takes you to a search function. You can then search either by company name or by category (there is a 'consultants and surveyors' category, for example) or by country. Or by a combination - so you could search for consultants/surveyors in Australia beginning with the letter 'D', for example.

That pulls up a list; if you then click on the word 'free' in the right hand column you are linked through to the relevant website.

If your readers know of any companies with sites that we do not list (or that we have an out-of-date address for) we would like to have details to update the database.

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Conference Reports

None this month.

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Future Events

Tuesday January 21, 2003 - Thursday January 23, 2003. The complete guide to: Time & Voyage Charterparties, London, UK

Monday January 27, 2003 - Wednesday January 29, 2003. Marine Cargo Claims SMTP Seminar, London, UK.

Wednesday February 12, 2003 - Friday February 14, 2003Maritime Security & Safety
New Challenges & Standards for Safeguarding your Profitability & Growth, London, UK.

11th-13th February 2003. Maritime Education, Training & Recruitment, Museum in Docklands, London, UK.

Tuesday February 25, 2003 - Thursday February 27, 2003. TOC2003 ASIA The Seventh Shipping, Ports and Terminals Event for Asia, PRC.

Tuesday March 11, 2003 - Wednesday March 12, 2003. Fire on Ships / Fire Science & Fire Investigation. Prevention, Detection & Control on Ships & Offshore Structures, London, UK.

Wednesday April 02, 2003 - Thursday April 03, 2003. Prevention and Management of Marine Corrosion / Analysing Corrosion Failures, London, UK

Tuesday May 13, 2003 - Thursday May 15, 2003. Cruise and Ferry 2003 (Conference and Exhibition) Olympia, London, UK.

For further information on the above go to: www.lloydslistevents.com

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NAMS 41st National Conference East, 13-15 April 2003, Tremont Hotel, 100 East
Chestnut Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Contact: Greg Davis. email information at www.daviscoltd.com

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From the Poop Deck

New financial terms for 2003

BULL MARKET: A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

P/E RATIO: The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER: What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POOR: Your life in a nutshell.

CASH FLOW: The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet

Some of you may have already seen the following, but as many of us are 'Baby Boomers' I felt that it should be published again ....... I Can't Believe We Made It!

If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have...

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

Our cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cupboards, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No mobile phones. Unthinkable.

We got cut, broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We ate patty cakes, bread and butter, and drank cordial, but we were never overweight...we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games, 65 channels on pay TV, video tape movies, surround sound, personal mobile phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian - how did we do it?

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

Footy and netball had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment.....

Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any
reason.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law - imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives....... for our own good......

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Disclaimer: Articles and reports reflect the views of the individuals who prepared them, and, unless indicated expressly in the text, do not necessarily represent the views of the editor. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this publication is accurate, the editor makes no representation or warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, completeness or correctness of such information. The editor accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any loss, damage or other liability arising from any use of this publication or the information which it contains. The contents of the publication are the responsibility of the editor alone.

News, views, enquiries, suggestions, articles and letters for inclusion in
future editions of FLASHLIGHT may be sent to:

Mike Wall
Tel:  +852 2259 3150
Fax: +852 2259 3151
Email: KiwiMarineHK@compuserve.com

  
     
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