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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] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tow it outside the environment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week 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] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the minimum crew requirement?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Well, one I suppose...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Surely it caught fire and then sank?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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

But the fourth one floated!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So this was just an accident of some sort?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week 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.