Emma Turton – 6th October 2025 at 10:41am New Zealand will pay Samoa 10 million tala ($3.5m) in compensation after one of its navy vessels sank off the island nation’s coast a year ago. HMNZS Manawanui, a specialist dive and hydrographic ship, ran aground during a reef survey off southern Upolu in October 2024. TheContinue reading “HMNZS Manawanui – New Zealand to pay Samoa $3.5m after its navy vessel ran aground and sank during reef survey”
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NZDF WRECK SET TO BECOME DIVE SITE
Dale Crisp | 12th March, 2025 THE GOVERNMENT of Samoa has told its New Zealand counterpart it now sees no need to salvage the sunken HMNZS Manawanui. The vessel sank on the morning of 6 October 2024, after hitting a reef it was in the process of surveying, the previous evening. An initial finding by an officialContinue reading “NZDF WRECK SET TO BECOME DIVE SITE”
HMNZS Manawanui returns from South Pacific deployment
Working alongside Royal Australian Navy forces, disposing of Second World War bombs in Vanuatu, marching in a street parade in Tonga and surveying areas of the sea floor in Ha’apai has kept the Royal New Zealand Navy Littoral Warfare Force busy. 10 July, 2024 HMNZS Manawanui arrived back at Devonport Naval Base on Wednesday, allowingContinue reading “HMNZS Manawanui returns from South Pacific deployment”
Diving Tender – Manawanui – iv
HMNZS Manawanui is a multi-role offshore support vessel currently commissioned in the Royal New Zealand Navy. The ship replaces two decommissioned vessels, the hydrographic survey ship HMNZS Resolution and the diving support vessel HMNZS Manawanui.[4] Defence officials reviewed 150 vessels before identifying the 85-metre Norwegian built MV Edda Fonn as suitable for conversion. It was delivered in May 2019 and commissioned on 7 June ofContinue reading “Diving Tender – Manawanui – iv”
