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Rena Disaster headlines with summaries.
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Teams to clean up Rena debris on Great Barrier Island
2 May 2012The company responsible for cleaning up debris from the container ship Rena is to send teams to Great Barrier Island, the northernmost point where debris has now washed up.
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Reports of Rena debris on Great Barrier Island
28 Apr 2012The company responsible for cleaning up debris from the Rena says it is investigating reports some has washed up on Great Barrier Island.
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Salvors sacked after taking wine from Rena wreck
12 Apr 2012Two contractors on the Rena salvage team have been fired for taking wine bottles from containers on the wreck.
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Search for Rena containers awaits calmer weather
8 Apr 2012Efforts to find ten containers swept off the wrecked cargo ship Rena during rough swells will begin again once conditions are calmer.
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Rena debris clean-up moves to Tairua area
10 Apr 2012The company responsible for cleaning up cargo spilled from the wreck of the Rena has sent equipment to Tairua on the Coromandel Peninsula so teams can start clearing debris from parts of the coast…
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Crews remove debris from Coromandel shoreline
10 Apr 2012A full-scale clean up has begun of debris from the cargo ship Rena that has washed up on rocky and difficult to reach areas of the Coromandel's east coast.
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Rena clean-up continues on Coromandel coastline
6 Apr 2012Clean-up crews on Friday continued clearing parts of the Coromandel coastline of fresh debris washed up from the container ship Rena.
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Rena owner considers legal position
6 Apr 2012The company owning the Rena is considering its legal position on a charge laid against it by Maritime New Zealand.
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Rena debris reaches Mercury Bay
7 Apr 2012More debris from the container ship Rena has washed ashore on the Coromandel coast, with the focus of the clean-up shifting to beaches in Mercury Bay near Whitianga.
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Charge laid against Rena owner
5 Apr 2012Maritime New Zealand has charged the owner of the Rena, following the ship's grounding on the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga last year. Audio
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Wreck too dangerous to board - salvage company
5 Apr 2012Svitzer Salvage, the company working on the wreck of the Rena, says it is currently far too dangerous to go near the remains of the vessel. Audio
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Food packets found on beach
5 Apr 2012Packets of dried noodles and milk powder bags from the Rena have been found on a Coromandel beach, at Sailor's Grave, north of Tairua.
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Rear section of Rena sinks
4 Apr 2012Rough seas in the Bay of Plenty have caused the rear section of the Rena to sink. Audio
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Containers top concern for mayor
4 Apr 2012Thames Coromandel district Mayor Glenn Leach says he is more concerned about containers littering the coastline than more oil washing up from the Rena. Audio
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Oil leaking from Rena again
3 Apr 2012Maritime New Zealand says a small amount of oil is leaking from the stranded container ship Rena.
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Forecast storm halts Rena salvage
2 Apr 2012Salvage work on the stricken cargo ship Rena has been suspended following forecast bad weather this week.
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Rena volunters celebrated
12 Mar 2012Up to 100 people gathered at a beach in Mount Maunganui on Sunday to celebrate the contribution of volunteers during the Rena incident.
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Rena containers lost in storm believed to have sunk
26 Mar 2012Maritime New Zealand says eight containers from the cargo ship Rena fell off the wreck during rough weather in Bay of Plenty last week and only one has been located so far.
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Businesses to start Rena class action soon
25 Mar 2012Bay of Plenty businesses which lost money after the grounding of the container ship Rena will begin court action against the ship's owners, Costamare, next month.
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Rena stern shifts in stormy weather
22 Mar 2012Maritime New Zealand says the longer the container ship Rena is subject to the weather, the weaker the wreck will become.
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Other ships sailed close to reef before Rena
9 Mar 2012Less than a month before the Rena ran aground off the coast of Tauranga last October, a similar-sized container ship passed about 1.5 nautical miles from the same reef. Audio
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Rena radar picked up signal before grounding - report
9 Mar 2012A report on the grounding of the cargo ship Rena says its radar picked up an intermittent echo directly in front of the vessel nine minutes before it struck a reef in the Bay of Plenty. Audio
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TAIC to release interim report on Rena grounding
6 Mar 2012An interim report on the grounding of a container ship in the Bay of Plenty will be released by the Transport Accident Investigation Commission on Thursday morning.
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Rena compensation 'unlikely' to be more than $12m
13 Mar 2012A maritime law expert says New Zealand will be lucky to get any more than $12 million off the owners of the stricken Rena. Audio
