megan, same as for
Whiskery. You are facing an uphill battle. The facts speak for themselves and the rest is pure speculation, unless we can get Jim and his crew back down here sometime to answer some questions.
Mahon got it right. The Privy Council agrees, the New Zealand government agrees and so do most observers of this debate. The others will soon get sick of posting rubbish about VMC, low cloud, poor visibility, photos that don't exist, lazy eights (now that's a new one) and CEOs getting threatening phone calls.(but don't let the police in on them - that's a new one too)
I'm off for a bit of R&R down the Island. Should be two or three pages of same old, same old by the time I get back. The fishing is great.