Who was the captain of the Rena?
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Asked by: Karen Stratton
Captain Mauro Balomaga and navigation officer Leonil Relon, both from the Philippines, had previously pleaded guilty to mishandling the vessel and altering ship documents. The Liberian-flagged MV Rena hit a reef off the North Island on .
What happened to the Rena captain?
SENTENCED: The Rena’s navigating officer, Leonil Relon (left) and captain Mauro Balomaga in the dock at the Tauranga District Court. The men responsible for causing New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster by grounding the Rena off Tauranga’s coast have been sentenced to seven months in jail.
Who was responsible for the Rena oil spill?
Costamare Inc.
The Rena oil spill occurred off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand in October 2011. The spill was caused by the grounding of MV Rena on the Astrolabe Reef. The Rena was a container ship and cargo vessel owned by the Greek shipping company Costamare Inc., through one of its subsidiary companies Daina Shipping.
What caused the Rena to crash?
She was renamed Andaman Sea in 2007 and had sailed under her current name and owner since 2010. On , due to navigation errors near the Astrolabe Reef, the Rena ran aground near Tauranga, New Zealand, resulting in an oil spill.
What happened to MV Rena?
On , Rena separated into two pieces and an estimated 200–300 of the approximately 830 remaining containers were lost overboard. The condition of the vessel had been gradually deteriorating during the time it was grounded on the reef, with more accelerated deterioration during stormy weather.
How was the Rena cleaned up?
About 3,800 tonnes went to landfills, and the remainder was recycled. Beads from Rena that have been washing up on shores at Matakana Island. Over 580 tonnes of liquid waste had been processed and removed for disposal by an environmental company.
How did they clean up the Rena oil spill?
Sandy beaches were also manually sieved to capture any smaller globs of oil. The work cost New Zealand thousands of labour hours and millions of dollars. A volunteer with some of the bags of black oily goo collected in the clean-up of beaches in the Bay of Plenty after the Rena oil spill.
Is the Rena ship still there?
Marine Ecologist Phil Ross explores the Rena ship wreck. The desolate wreck of the MV Rena, which ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef in October 2011, has been reclaimed by nature and become a thriving kelp forest.
Where is the Rena now?
Since then, the clean-up operation has seen lots of debris removed from the wreck – but large parts of the Rena still remain on the ocean floor. The Rena wreck is now managed by the Astrolabe Community Trust, which took over responsibility for the future of the wreck after the initial clean up.
When was the Rena disaster?
5 October 2011
On the Mediterranean Shipping Company-chartered, Liberian-flagged container ship Rena astonished local mariners by grounding on the clearly marked Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty while approaching Tauranga Harbour. Three months later the vessel broke in half.
