07-10-2024, 01:57 PM
(07-10-2024, 01:23 PM)Bracken Wrote:So essentially a 'second hand Corolla'(06-10-2024, 08:17 PM)nzoomed Wrote: ...
Near new boat only built around 2019 from what I can tell doing survey work, hits a reef and catches fire then sinks.
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From Wikipedia:
The ship was originally a survey vessel for the oil and gas industry, entering service in 2003 as MV Edda Fonn. She was purchased for the Royal New Zealand Navy in 2018, and commissioned as HMNZS Manawanui on 7 June 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNZS_Manawanui_(2019)

https://www.ship-technology.com/projects/edda/
I see she has storage capacity for over 1.1 million litres of marine oil (diesel) so likely to result in quite a significant spillage depending on how full she was when she sunk.