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NZ Navy ship runs aground off Samoa, catches fire and sinks (www.rnz.co.nz)

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"They're all on land. They are safe and sound apart from just a few individuals that… have some minor injuries, and so we treated them at the site and transferred to them to the hospital."

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[–] HappycamperNZ 9 points 1 month ago

Ignoring the typical reddit comments that seem to have followed.

yes, NZ has a navy. Its not massive, isn't going to win any wars and should probably be bigger considering we have the 5th largest EEZ in the world... but our total population is a medium city spread out over an area 1/4 of Europe so we do what we can.
its not the first time one of our survey ships have run around, but its the first in decades.
regardless of the cause CO, XO, OOW and NAV will take the blame. Saying that, it is interesting that our armed forces have been under staffed, under equipped and under trained for decades. Is there a cultural cause, lack of maintenance, incorrect SSO? Was it running at condition 1Z, were they where they thought they were, did they have to be there to do their job, what damage was taken and what was the response? Was the CO right to abandon ship and save lives in peace, or risk lives to save the ship?