It's like no one has operated a ship before.
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To: T.B. Yoits
Gee, I thought our Navy was the only one that ran ships aground. /s
To: T.B. Yoits
3 posted on
10/06/2024 7:13:54 AM PDT by
Da Coyote
To: T.B. Yoits
From Wikipedia: "On 9 December 2022, Commander Yvonne Gray took the command of the Manawanui. Gray, originally a teacher, commenced her naval career in the United Kingdom and moved to New Zealand in 2012."
To: T.B. Yoits
From Wikipedia: "Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was the ship's sponsor. At the time of commissioning it was intended that the ship would serve with the navy for 15 years."
Months... years... 15 something or other.
Now it can serve for centuries as an artificial reef next to the natural reef that the skipper crashed in to.
To: T.B. Yoits
Ten or twenty years ago I wouldn’t have laughed about something like this. Now, I’m laughing my butt off like a lunatic. The who world has gone “woke insane” crazy and they’ve dragged me along with them.
7 posted on
10/06/2024 7:19:19 AM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(The New "American Dream"! U.S. taxpayer financed - "ASYLUM" for foreign fugitives.)
To: T.B. Yoits
Glad to hear that all the crew has been rescued.
Each one of those events presents it’s own kind of shock:
Ran aground, burst into flames. then begins to sink!
This is why most navies have frequent General Quarters Safety Drills. Or at least they did when I served, around 1982. In today’s “patty-cake” world, having mandatory drills may have been declared “Racist, or Colonist”.
To: T.B. Yoits
10 posted on
10/06/2024 7:22:35 AM PDT by
rktman
(Destroy America from withinE? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: T.B. Yoits
I am baffled as to how a ship designed for mapping the sea floor and presumably packed with instruments do do so could unexpectedly hit a reef so hard as to sink.
12 posted on
10/06/2024 7:24:39 AM PDT by
PUGACHEV
To: T.B. Yoits
Imagine that, New Zealand can send rescue 2000 miles away and save 75 people in less than 12 hours…. MMMM… 🤔
13 posted on
10/06/2024 7:24:51 AM PDT by
Lockbox
(politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
To: T.B. Yoits
Doubtless, they were counting melt-water due to “climate change” to float the ship over the reef. 😏
15 posted on
10/06/2024 7:26:59 AM PDT by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: T.B. Yoits
So the US doesn’t have the market cornered on ‘stupid’!
21 posted on
10/06/2024 7:33:23 AM PDT by
SMARTY
(In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
To: T.B. Yoits
Deserters. They didn’t want to go back.
To: T.B. Yoits
The ship sunk, bit no feelings were hurt.
35 posted on
10/06/2024 7:46:25 AM PDT by
BRL
To: T.B. Yoits
46 posted on
10/06/2024 8:05:20 AM PDT by
xoxox
To: T.B. Yoits
“Fortunately, no one was heavily injured and no lives were lost. We're proud to say WE SAVED THEM.”
Thank God
49 posted on
10/06/2024 8:09:37 AM PDT by
af_vet_1981
( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
To: T.B. Yoits
In this age of global positioning systems and advanced radar and sonar, why are we hearing all these stories about ships crashing into things—or into each other?
To: T.B. Yoits
They don’t indicate who the captain was in the article.
To: T.B. Yoits
Ran aground AND sank....now there is the headline!
To: T.B. Yoits
Ran aground and caught fire?! That’s quite a two-for.
59 posted on
10/06/2024 8:45:31 AM PDT by
Rummyfan
( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
To: T.B. Yoits
ship runs aground off Samoa coast, catches fire and sinks
64 posted on
10/06/2024 8:58:30 AM PDT by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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