NZ navy ship on fire and capsized off Samoa

[king1]

For a ship that was suppose to be getting up close and personal with a reef, I would have thought watertight compartments might be useful...

"We bought Manawanui knowing she was not a war ship, she's a commercial operation... but with that comes a risk and the risk is that commercial vessels do not have the same level of redundancy in their systems or their design that warships do - you can't seal off compartments, create water tight compartments and keep the vessel afloat so that it can be towed, salvaged and repaired.
"Unfortunately with commercial vessel of this type, you know that in a worst case situation you're going to have an issue but I guess no one anticipated that she'd hit a reef."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5300...ui-sinking