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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/world@quokk.au

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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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[-] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago

New Zealand had a navy?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 2 months ago

Time to invade!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUYbI64QHI

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Hahaha fucking funny eh

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not any more, anyway.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Mongolia and Bolivia have Navies

[-] cammoblammo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yep. They even have a submarine now.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

https://www.satirewire.com/canadian-warship-seizes-tanker-in-wait-canada-has-a-warship/

[-] OutForARip@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago

This is very atypical, did the front fall off?

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] cammoblammo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

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

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

they beached the ship! it was beached is!

(Invidious link)

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 2 months ago

Want a chup?

[-] Zane@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Nah, can't chew bro.

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months 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?