New Zealand pays millions of Samoa after a naval ship accident

The New Zealand government paid for Samoa 10m Samoan Tala (NZD 6 million; 2.6 million pounds sterling) after one of its naval ships crashed into a reef in Samoan waters before caught fire and sink last year.

The HMNz Manawanui began to flee the oil in the ocean after having flowed, with relationships of turtle that die and smooths appearing on the beaches of Samoan nearby.

The New Zealand Minister for Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, said payment had been made at the Samoa request.

HMNZS Manawanui was the first ship that New Zealand has lost in sea since the Second World War. It was one of the country’s nine ships in the country’s little naval fleet, and had investigated a seabed area that had not been mapped for decades when it failed.

The 75 people on board were successfully saved from the ship as it began to list the coasts of Samoan Island exactly a year ago.

Although it was seen from the smoke that escapes, Samoan officials later said that all of its fuel had not burned and that the ship had not fled oil from various places – causing concerns about local marine fauna.

Since setting up the ship, Hmnzs Manawanui has remained on the reef, but diesel fuel, oil and other pollutants have been removed from the ship while a New Zealand naval team has been responsible for removing the debris.

Peters said in a statement that the New Zealand government continued to work with Samoa’s decisions concerning the ship and its future.

“We recognize the impact that the sinking has had on local communities and recognize the disturbance it caused,” he said.

He added that “minimizing possible environmental impacts and supporting the answer” were “our absolute priorities”.

Any disciplinary procedure has not yet been determined, but the New Zealand defense force reached the end of its investigation, he said.

A The incident survey revealed that a series of human errors, including the non-Désorder of the automatic pilot of the ship, was the deep cause of the accident.

In the days following the crash, social media users began to drag the female captain of the ship, saying that his sex was to blame.

These commentators were denounced at the time by the Minister of Defense of New Zealand as “admirals of chair”.