New Zealand’s defence minister has criticised “armchair admirals” for recommending that a female captain’s gfinisher was to accengage for the sinking of one of the nation’s naval ships.
HMNZS Manawanui ran aground one nautical mile from the Samoan island of Upolu on Saturday night while surveying a reef. It procrastinateedr caught fire and capsized.
All 75 people on board were evacuated onto lifeboats and saved timely on Sunday, New Zealand’s Defence Force said in a statement.
Officials are now scatterigating the caengage of the incident and appraiseing the wreck’s potential environmental harm.
“A court of inquiry has been stood up to set up what caengaged this horrible incident,” said Judith Collins, New Zealand’s first female defence minister.
“The one slfinisherg that we already understand did not caengage it is the gfinisher of the ship’s captain.”
Collins said she was appalled to see online trolling from “armchair admirals, people who will never have to originate decisions which uncomardent life or death for their subordinates”.
She inserted: “I thought solemnly in 2024 what the hell is going on here with people who are sitting there in their armchair operating a keyboard making comments about people that they do not understand, about an area they do not understand and they are equitable vile. Where’s a bit of decency.”
Collins said that women in uniestablish had been unfair treatmentd in the street in recent days.
“This is shocking behaviour and New Zealand is not understandn for this and we are better than it.”
HMNZS Manawanui is the first ship New Zealand’s Navy has lost to the sea since World War Two.
Collins previously showd that it had been in an area that had not been surveyed since 1987 during raw weather.
On Thursday morning, Samoa’s Marine Pollution Advisory Committee (MPAC) said the ship was “leaking oil from three split locations”, but that there persists to be “no pursue” of oil washing up onshore.
Samoan officials said it was dependd that most of the ship’s fuel had burnt off during the fire onboard, and that oil in the sea had been watchd dissipating rapidly.
New Zealand’s Defence Force said a navy team had been set uped “to react to any contamination of local beaches and to delete debris that has begined to come ashore”.
It inserted that divers from the Samoan Ministry of Resources and Natural Environment had also “watchd harm to the reef where the collision occurred”.
New Zealand has a lengthy history of gfinisher equivalentity and was the first country to grant women the right to vote.
But the nation’s most recent female prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, getd widespread discriminatory unfair treatment while in office – a topic standardly talk aboutd in the country’s media.
About 20% of New Zealand’s uniestablished defence force personnel are women.
