Salvage operations onboard the stranded container ship Rena are concentrating on preparing the ship for the storm expected to last the next couple of days.
The containers onboard have been lashed down ahead of high seas expected to be whipped up by gale forces onshore winds which are expected to arrive later today.
Metvu's picture of Bay of Plenty conditions early tomorrow.
The New Zealand MetService has a gale warning in force for the Bay of Plenty and is forecasting a northeasterly rising to 25 knots this morning and to 35 knots this afternoon, with sea becoming very rough.
The MetService is predicting a northeast swell rising to one metre.
The marine weather website is predicting a 1.5 metre groundswell on Wednesday and Thursday with a face height of 2.5m.
Metvu does not make wave height predictions, but it's forecasting 25 knot northeasterlies over two days with a fetch long enough to blow in a good ground swell.
There will also be rain with heavy falls at times.
The weather will impact on both the salvage and oil recovery effort.
Oil recovery was stopped this morning.
The salvage experts and naval architects on board are very closely monitoring the ship and have got sensors in place that will provide advance warning if the vessel's structure comes under too much stress.
4 comments
Salvage team slow as they are incapable
Posted on 10-10-2011 10:10 | By Salty SeaDog
Hey salvage team you should learn how to pump oil out of a ship before you advertise yourselves as salvages. Our Navy would of engineered a solution and unloaded her onto Endeavour before this storm.We all arent ignorant like the TV joutnalists who accept the word complex as an engineering solution
Yeah right
Posted on 10-10-2011 12:55 | By Justintime
Salty SeaDog, are you talking about the same navy that can't order brand new ships and get them right, especially if they are vessels with merchant navy heritage. The experts aboard RENA have experience and knowledge our navy can only dream about, and they know they need to get it right. Unfortunately the weather takes orders from no-one. I think their fault is with abysmal communication, they need to tell people why it takes so long to do these tasks, like getting oil off.
Yes correct Justintime
Posted on 10-10-2011 15:24 | By Salty SeaDog
Yes that Navy who had a new designed ship with a few problems namely the alcoves. Pumping fuel through a ship aint rocket science Justintime.If you read the salavages actions they are going into tanks via top hatches with submersible pumps lowered down and pipes. Any farmer/waste water driver knows how to do that with a sump pump-Can you understand that now,do you think you could actually do that yourself with a BA suit on? So do you now understand how awful their fair weather delay has being? And they think you are too uneducated to understand what they have being doing to move fuel. So they and John Key/Joyce call it complex and our journalists on tv and radio and most in print dont question them. So do you think "complex" is another word for dont question us as we dont want you to highlight any failures in this salvage process so the oil on the beach wont be tainting their reputation too? I tell you what the engineers at Marsden Point have pumped this heavy duty oil around all day/night for 50 years and our navy has a dedicated heavy duty fuel crew so they could of set this system up five days ago not Wednesday
Sunday/five days on
Posted on 10-10-2011 15:25 | By Salty SeaDog
Hi, i meant Sunday as the last word in my prior comment
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