{"id":11604,"date":"2024-10-07T05:18:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11604"},"modified":"2024-10-07T05:18:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T16:18:41","slug":"hmnzs-manawanui-what-we-know-about-the-navy-ships-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11604","title":{"rendered":"HMNZS Manawanui: What we know about the Navy ship’s sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Navy ship HMNZS\u00a0Manawanui<\/i>\u00a0has\u00a0sunk off the coast of Samoa<\/a>\u00a0after running aground on a reef.<\/p>\n

The 75 passengers and crew were evacuated into life rafts after the incident on Saturday night – a move that authorities say likely prevented loss of life.<\/p>\n

But what caused the crash, what’s next and how much will the ship cost to replace?<\/p>\n

Here’s what we know.<\/p>\n

What happened?<\/h3>\n

The HMNZS\u00a0Manawanui<\/i>\u00a0was on its third deployment to the southwest Pacific this year after leaving Auckland in late September.<\/p>\n

The ship is a specialist dive and hydrographic vessel that is used to carry out a range of support, salvage and survey tasks.<\/p>\n

Crew on board had been conducting a reef survey before the ship ran aground about 1 nautical mile off the south coast of Upolu, Samoa’s most populated island.<\/p>\n

Unsuccessful attempts were made to get the ship off the reef before it began to list (lean to one side).<\/p>\n

The passengers and crew were evacuated using four life rafts and two rigid hull inflatable boats, Chief of Navy Rear Admiral Garin Golding said.<\/p>\n

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Samoa Fire and Emergency Services Authority staff help the survivors ashore.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Samoa Fire and Emergency Services Authority<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Due to the “extremely challenging” conditions, it took the first survivors five hours to get to shore. An Air Force P-8A Poseidon was deployed to assist.<\/p>\n

One of the small boats “flipped on the reef” during the rescue attempt and those who were on board walked to land, Golding said.<\/p>\n

Samoa fire commissioner Tanuvasa Petone said three people who were on board needed hospital treatment.<\/p>\n

“They … have some minor injuries, and so we treated them at the site and transferred to them to the hospital.”<\/p>\n

Golding said one person had a dislocated shoulder, while another had injured their back.<\/p>\n

After all the survivors were ashore, the ship caught fire, capsized and sank. It was underwater by 9am on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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The Navy ship HMNZS\u00a0Manawanui\u00a0has\u00a0sunk off the coast of Samoa\u00a0after running aground on a reef. The 75 passengers and crew were evacuated into life rafts after the incident on Saturday night – a move that authorities say likely prevented loss of life. But what caused the crash, what’s next and how much will the ship cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11607,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions\/11607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}