Dr Phil Ross remembers a time when diving Ōtāiti / Astrolabe Reef meant swimming through what looked like a scrap metal ...

TAURANGA, New Zealand, October 6, 2011 (ENS) – A slick of heavy fuel oil five kilometers (three miles) long extends northward from the damaged container ship Rena, which ran aground on the Astrolabe ...

The huge accommodation block of the wrecked container ship Rena is to be removed, in a major development revealed by the ship's owners and insurers today. The decision to remove the four-storey block, ...

Salvors of the wrecked container ship Rena, which ran aground off New Zealand, have started cutting up internal sections of the bow and hope to start removing sections next week. US salvage company ...

Crippled Ship Spills Containers Into New Zealand Waters TAURANGA, New Zealand, October 13, 2011 (ENS) – New Zealand authorities are preparing to deal with the possible breakup of a container ship that ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The condition of a crippled cargo ship stuck on a New Zealand reef for three months has worsened.

The oil from the vessel, which broke in two at the weekend after becoming grounded at Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga since September, was expected to reach Little Waihi and Pukehina this evening or ...

A second crane barge is slowly making its way to the Bay of Plenty as salvage teams prepare to hoist containers off the stricken ship Rena. Salvors today moored the crane barge Sea Tow 60 (ST60) at ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Marine crews were preparing Sunday for an operation to extract oil from a container ship that is stranded on a reef near New Zealand. The 775-foot Liberia-flagged Rena ...

WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)–Aerial observation flights are planned Friday to determine how much oil is leaking from a stranded container ship off the east ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The Filipino captain and second officer of a container ship wrecked on a reef off a popular New Zealand holiday spot pleaded guilty on Wednesday to causing the country's worst ...

A review of coastal navigation safety by Maritime NZ has found that there is a sound framework in place to manage the movement of ships around the New Zealand coast, with procedures in place to assess ...