Cinemagoer have given a lukewarm reception to the film The Boat that Rocked, a comedy about the pirate radio ships that broadcast pop music to the UK in the 1960s. Whether or not it really represents life on the ocean wave, one thing is certainly different about the ship in the film and the ships that made waves 40 years ago: this one was strictly legal.rnAnd UK consultancy Maritime Services International made sure it was. There can be few shipping organisations that have a section of their website devoted to services to the film industry, but MSI has just that. And for its latest project, it liaised with the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency, helped to develop a safety case and provided safety training onboard.rnMSI may have made sure the boat was safe, but the film was holed beneath the waterline. As one scathing review in the Independent newspaper put it, "Richard Curtis may exhibit fine taste as a pop picker, but the vessel on which he's aboard as writer-director really isn't seaworthy."rnSo the Captain is looking forward to something better when the latest Sylvester Stallone film, The Expendables, is released in a year's time. Stallone is its script writer, director and leading actor and some filming took place a couple of weeks ago onboard the 23,000dwt general cargo ship Igarka, owned by the Russian shipping company Fesco.
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