The Manawanui's sinking is a marine disaster. But it arguably poses a lesser risk than the oil spill caused by the container ship MV Rena, which ran aground near the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga in ...
In the face of New Zealand's largest oil spill, caused by the 2011 grounding of the MV Rena, Bay of Plenty locals pulled together to save their treasured coast.