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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Had, and now they are vulnerable. Time to invade!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Knew what is was before I clicked, always a good one :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Hahaha fucking funny eh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not any more, anyway.

[–] expatriado 3 points 1 month ago

Mongolia and Bolivia have Navies

[–] cammoblammo 3 points 1 month ago

Yep. They even have a submarine now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is very atypical, did the front fall off?

[–] mojofrododojo 4 points 1 month ago

that's not supposed to happen. front's not designed for that.

[–] cammoblammo 11 points 1 month ago

It’s rather ironic that the crew of a ship designed to map the ocean floor couldn’t tell where the seabed was.

[–] 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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

they beached the ship! it was beached is!

(Invidious link)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Nah, can't chew bro.

[–] HonoraryMancunian 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haha I thought they were saying 'beached as' like 'beached as fuck'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I believe that's the origin yeah. It just sounds like "is" instead of "as" cuz kiwi accent lol

[–] Etterra 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I understand the grounding...But what caused the fire?

[–] HappycamperNZ 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wasn't made safe, fuel on board, hot things falling onto burnny things. Arching, things breaking, wrapped sparky things becoming unwrapped.

Looks like its coming from superstructure, so could be engine room fire venting out.