Pacific island nations such as Fiji and Tonga sit at the crossroads of largely unpatrolled ocean trafficking routes used to ...
One of the final tasks the New Zealand Navy ship undertook before it sank off the coast of Samoa was surveying another vessel ...
The rescuer - who owns commercial diving company Ark Marine - was called upon on Saturday night after news broke that a Royal ...
Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) divers were on the water at first light today to assess the wreckage of the ship, which ran on ...
The captain of the doomed HMNZS Manawanui says the disaster was when her “very worst imagining became a reality”. Commander ...
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HMNZS Manawanui, the Royal New Zealand Navy's specialist dive and hydrographic vessel was conducting a reef survey off the ...
Samoa’s deputy prime minister says there’s no evidence of a major fuel spill on a Samoan reef after a New Zealand navy ship ...
Over the weekend, the Royal New Zealand Navy’s hydrographic, diving and salvage ship, HMNZS Manawanui, ran aground off the ...
No oil leaks have been found in the area where the HMNZS Manawanui sank, the Samoa government says. But a local surf tour ...
The New Zealand navy has lost its first ship since World War II after the HMNZS Manawanui sank on a reef off the coast of ...
A significant maritime incident occurred when the Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Manawanui sank after running aground on a reef near Upolu Island, Samoa, during a surveying mission on October 5.