Stern View of A09 HMNZS A09 Manawanui Dive Ship

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by Phillip Espinasse

Title

Stern View of A09 HMNZS A09 Manawanui Dive Ship

Artist

Phillip Espinasse

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Photograph

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Image# 20200815_D85_5128_1_HMNZSManawanuiA09

View from the stern of the A09 HMNZS Manawanui, an ST-253 ROV class ship, docked in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Oahu).

A Worthy Cause ...Investigating and preventing oil spills/leaks from WWII wrecks in the Pacific.

For a few hundred thousand dollar investment, an Australian couple, Paul and Wilma Adams, bought a retired New Zealand warship (A09 HMNZS Manawanui, an ST-253 ROV class ship, now renamed "MV Ocean Recovery") to investigate WWII wrecks polluting the Pacific.
Based out of Carrington, Newcastle, New South Wales (AU) and operated through the couple's foundation (Major Projects Foundation), the ship will be used to preserve fuel-laden vessels which sank in the South Pacific during WWII.

As it turns out, there's a potential disaster just waiting to happen deep in the Pacific with thousands of shipwrecks (300 of which are oil tankers) beginning to leak oil at the bottom of the ocean floor.

The worthy conservation project aims to "lockguard the wrecks against leakage by using cathodic protection, with blocks lowered underwater from the Manawanui."
The 44m long ex-Royal New Zealand Navy dive tender Manawanui is purpose-built for diving sea missions, and includes a decompression chamber, a domed bell for deep diving and a crane for heavy lifting overboard... she’s got a large helicopter landing pad too at the bow!

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August 22nd, 2020