🇳🇿 LESBIAN CAPTAIN LOSES SHIP!
The Royal NZ Navy ship’s HMNZS Manawanui sank this morning after running aground on a reef near the southern coast of Upolu, Samoa, last night and catching fire.
$100 million down the drain
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All 75 crew and passengers onboard were safely rescued overnight. Two people needed hospital treatment for minor injuries, one with a dislocated shoulder and another with a hurt back.
"Rescuers battled currents and winds that were pushing the life rafts and sea boats toward the reefs, and swells made the rescue effort particularly challenging.
Those on board the lifeboats and sea boats were transferred to vessels that responded to the rescue call and were transported ashore."
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The Defence Force said "the exact cause of the grounding is unknown and this will need further investigation".
Defence Minister Judith Collins told media in Auckland there will be a Court of Inquiry launched to establish why the ship ran aground, caught fire and then capsized.
—> How about diversity and inclusion as hiring policy? Check the lesbian captain.
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The $100m vessel was on fire and listing heavily, after running aground before 7pm last night. Footage from the scene showed smoke billowing from the stranded ship.
The ship ran aground near the southern coast of Upolu, with all on board evacuating to "life rafts and sea boats", according to the Defence Force.
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HMNZS Manawanui purchased for over $100m in 2018
The HMNZS Manawanui was purchased for $103 million by the Defence Ministry in 2018.
Then-defence minister Ron Mark said in a press release at the time the ship would “fill an existing capability gap” created when two vessels were decommissioned – the survey ship HMNZS Resolution in 2012 and dive tender HMNZS Manawanui in 2018.
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She’s a trained teacher
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