What happened to the container ship Rena?
On 5 October 2011, due to navigation errors near the Astrolabe Reef, the Rena ran aground near Tauranga, New Zealand, resulting in an oil spill.
How did MSC Napoli sink?
MSC Napoli was a United Kingdom-flagged container ship that developed a hull breach due to rough seas and slamming in the English Channel on 18 January 2007. She was deliberately run aground at Lyme Bay to avoid an environmental disaster and broken up by salvors.
Why did the Costa Concordia sank?
In the late evening of 13 January 2012, a cruise liner off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, capsized after a score of human errors and poor judgement led to the ship crashing into underwater rocks.
Is the captain of the Costa Concordia still in jail?
The captain of the Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino is still in prison for his part in the sinking. He was sentenced to 16 years in 2016. He was 54 at the time and not expected to leave prison until he is at least 70 years old.
What happened to the captain of the Rena?
SENTENCED: The Rena’s navigating officer, Leonil Relon (left) and captain Mauro Balomaga in the dock at the Tauranga District Court. The men responsible for causing New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster by grounding the Rena off Tauranga’s coast have been sentenced to seven months in jail.
Is the Rena still there?
This Connected article looks at the aftermath of the 2011 environmental disaster caused when the MV Rena struck Astrolabe Reef, off the Tauranga coast. Since then, the clean-up operation has seen lots of debris removed from the wreck – but large parts of the Rena still remain on the ocean floor.
What happened mol comfort?
Shipwreck. On 17 June 2013, MOL Comfort suffered a crack amidships in bad weather about 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) off the coast of Yemen and eventually broke into two after hogging. The vessel was underway from Singapore to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a cargo of 4,382 containers equivalent to 7,041 TEU.
How did they clean-up the Rena oil spill?
Sandy beaches were also manually sieved to capture any smaller globs of oil. The work cost New Zealand thousands of labour hours and millions of dollars. A volunteer with some of the bags of black oily goo collected in the clean-up of beaches in the Bay of Plenty after the Rena oil spill.
What is Rena doing now?
The Rena wreck is now managed by the Astrolabe Community Trust, which took over responsibility for the future of the wreck after the initial clean up.
Who was the captain of the Rena?
Captain Mauro Balomaga
Captain Mauro Balomaga and navigation officer Leonil Relon, both from the Philippines, had previously pleaded guilty to mishandling the vessel and altering ship documents. The Liberian-flagged MV Rena hit a reef off the North Island on 5 October 2011.
How did the MOL comfort sink?