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An oil spill is “highly probable” from a grounded New Zealand navy ship which sank and caught fire off the coast of Samoa, the Pacific island nation’s acting prime minister said late Sunday.

Officials in Samoa are conducting an environmental impact assessment in the area where the ship sank on Sunday morning, acting Prime Minister Tuala Tevaga Iosefo Ponifasio said in a statement.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tow it outside the environment.

[–] InverseParallax 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is why you don't build ships out of cardboard or cardboard derivatives.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] InverseParallax 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No paper, no string, no sellotape, rubber’s out. Um, they’ve got to have a steering wheel. There’s a minimum crew requirement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's the minimum crew requirement?

[–] InverseParallax 2 points 3 days ago

Well, one I suppose...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Surely it caught fire and then sank?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

As far as I understand the reports, the headline is correct.

It ran aground on a reef and got damaged beyond repair. While it is not fully submerged, the term "sunk" still applies.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 4 days ago

It burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.

But the fourth one floated!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Who wrote this headline? It should have the events in a more chronological order. Unless you want me to believe that it started burning underwater.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So this was just an accident of some sort?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No no, they were surveying a reef, and found it, right under the keel. Great success. Too bsd the front fell off.

[–] Archer 1 points 3 days ago

That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

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