New Zealand - 6 Americans, 1 Briton, ages 17-73, & ship Nina lost at sea, 4 June 2013
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/world/9647044/Answers-sought-over-Nina-search
" Parents of a teenager who was among seven people on board the classic American yacht Nina that disappeared in the Tasman Sea seven months ago have failed to get New Zealand authorities to resume the search.
However, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre (RCCNZ) in Wellington has ordered an independent review of its search.
In addition, Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee, who met the family yesterday in Wellington, is seeking answers over what happened.
The 85-year-old schooner sailed from Opua on May 29, bound for Newcastle, Australia. It was last heard from on June 4 during a storm in the Tasman Sea.
A massive New Zealand-led search found nothing and was called off, but families of the missing continue to look."
" Parents of a teenager who was among seven people on board the classic American yacht Nina that disappeared in the Tasman Sea seven months ago have failed to get New Zealand authorities to resume the search.
However, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre (RCCNZ) in Wellington has ordered an independent review of its search.
In addition, Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee, who met the family yesterday in Wellington, is seeking answers over what happened.
The 85-year-old schooner sailed from Opua on May 29, bound for Newcastle, Australia. It was last heard from on June 4 during a storm in the Tasman Sea.
A massive New Zealand-led search found nothing and was called off, but families of the missing continue to look."
Seven Sharp on One News, 30th January. 10 minute video piece of the news story
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/family-missing-nina-crew-not-ready-give-up-5816913/video
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/family-missing-nina-crew-not-ready-give-up-5816913/video
Lengthy article, video and pics.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/lost-at-sea-20140205-32039.html
""I said, 'Okay, Ricky, if we don't find them, and they don't wash up, when do we quit searching?' And he said, 'After a year.' And that seemed right, because in my heart I'd already said it would be on Danielle's birthday, which is May 18th."
Robin cries a bit, then looks at Ricky, who is busy studying the table. "But first," he says defiantly, "there are some unpopulated islands around the Solomons, and we want to go there and search every one of them."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/lost-at-sea-20140205-32039.html#ixzz2tLpL4tI5
http://www.smh.com.au/national/lost-at-sea-20140205-32039.html
""I said, 'Okay, Ricky, if we don't find them, and they don't wash up, when do we quit searching?' And he said, 'After a year.' And that seemed right, because in my heart I'd already said it would be on Danielle's birthday, which is May 18th."
Robin cries a bit, then looks at Ricky, who is busy studying the table. "But first," he says defiantly, "there are some unpopulated islands around the Solomons, and we want to go there and search every one of them."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/lost-at-sea-20140205-32039.html#ixzz2tLpL4tI5
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Robin and Ricky Wright to return to US but believe daughter Danielle is alive and on missing ship
HERE’S how Robin Wright sees it: Her 19-year-old daughter Danielle is adrift on the Pacific Ocean but is keeping her spirits up with her six crewmates on their wooden sailboat, the Nina. They’re collecting rainwater, rationing food, singing, telling travel stories and planning their next adventures.
Heck, Mrs Wright figures, by now Danielle may even have gotten married to one of the three young men aboard. After all, the Nina’s captain is a registered celebrant.
New Zealand authorities see it very differently: They believe the 70-foot (21-metre) schooner likely sank more than eight months ago after getting battered by a storm as the crew attempted to cross the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...-on-missing-ship/story-fnizu68q-1226831167239
Robin and Ricky Wright to return to US but believe daughter Danielle is alive and on missing ship
HERE’S how Robin Wright sees it: Her 19-year-old daughter Danielle is adrift on the Pacific Ocean but is keeping her spirits up with her six crewmates on their wooden sailboat, the Nina. They’re collecting rainwater, rationing food, singing, telling travel stories and planning their next adventures.
Heck, Mrs Wright figures, by now Danielle may even have gotten married to one of the three young men aboard. After all, the Nina’s captain is a registered celebrant.
New Zealand authorities see it very differently: They believe the 70-foot (21-metre) schooner likely sank more than eight months ago after getting battered by a storm as the crew attempted to cross the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...-on-missing-ship/story-fnizu68q-1226831167239
Any chance at all that the Nina crew may have run into pirates or these people?
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/02/24/21491376.html
"The Sea Shepherd conservation group, founded by Canadian Paul Watson, says it was ambushed overnight by Japanese whalers in the waters around Australia.
During a confrontation lasting about six hours, two Japanese harpoon ships attacked the Sea Shepherd's Bob Barker a total of 33 times at close range, dragging steel cables across the ship's bow in an attempt to disable its propellers and rudders, the organization said in a news release."
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/02/24/21491376.html
"The Sea Shepherd conservation group, founded by Canadian Paul Watson, says it was ambushed overnight by Japanese whalers in the waters around Australia.
During a confrontation lasting about six hours, two Japanese harpoon ships attacked the Sea Shepherd's Bob Barker a total of 33 times at close range, dragging steel cables across the ship's bow in an attempt to disable its propellers and rudders, the organization said in a news release."
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THE CO-OWNER of an Australian fishing vessel that stumbled across the mast and sail of an unidentified yacht in the Timor Sea near Darwin claims the wreckage could be part of missing vessel Nina.
An Australia Bay Seafoods ship snagged a boat’s mast and sail in its nets about 170km off Darwin last week.
Australia Bay Seafoods’ co-owner, Bill Passey, said that it had taken his crew about six hours to *unhook the net from the wreckage.
“Eventually when they did get off something gave way,” he said. “And among all the tangled mess was a sail and a mast off a yacht.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ti...g-american-yacht/story-fnk1w5y0-1226870128309
An Australia Bay Seafoods ship snagged a boat’s mast and sail in its nets about 170km off Darwin last week.
Australia Bay Seafoods’ co-owner, Bill Passey, said that it had taken his crew about six hours to *unhook the net from the wreckage.
“Eventually when they did get off something gave way,” he said. “And among all the tangled mess was a sail and a mast off a yacht.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/ti...g-american-yacht/story-fnk1w5y0-1226870128309
Could this be the same boat?
http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/natio...g-boat-suspended/story-fnjbnvyj-1226870274850
"An RAAF P3 Orion aircraft and a civilian jet were on Sunday sent to look for the 75-metre long boat after an emergency beacon was set off in the southern Indian Ocean about 3200km southwest of Perth and 648km north of the Antarctic mainland.
"The vessel was not located but debris was seen in the location of the beacon signal. There were no signs of a life raft or people in the water," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said on Monday.
"Based on expert medical advice ... in the current weather conditions there is no prospect of survival."
It's believed the vessel may have been illegally fishing".
http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/natio...g-boat-suspended/story-fnjbnvyj-1226870274850
"An RAAF P3 Orion aircraft and a civilian jet were on Sunday sent to look for the 75-metre long boat after an emergency beacon was set off in the southern Indian Ocean about 3200km southwest of Perth and 648km north of the Antarctic mainland.
"The vessel was not located but debris was seen in the location of the beacon signal. There were no signs of a life raft or people in the water," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said on Monday.
"Based on expert medical advice ... in the current weather conditions there is no prospect of survival."
It's believed the vessel may have been illegally fishing".
http://www.klfy.com/story/25061019/no-help-from-us-frustrates-nia-search-group
"Efforts by the United States to find downed Malaysian Airlines flight 370 have raised eyebrows with Ricky and Robin wright, as they continue to search without government help for their daughter and six others missing at sea".
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"The Wrights say while they are happy the United States lent its resources in the search for Malaysian airlines flight 370. They wish the same assistance was given to them when they needed it the most. Ricky Wright says they asked the United States to sharpen a satellite image taken back in July that appeared to be a boat drifting in the Tasman Sea. Wright says they refused to help".
"Efforts by the United States to find downed Malaysian Airlines flight 370 have raised eyebrows with Ricky and Robin wright, as they continue to search without government help for their daughter and six others missing at sea".
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"The Wrights say while they are happy the United States lent its resources in the search for Malaysian airlines flight 370. They wish the same assistance was given to them when they needed it the most. Ricky Wright says they asked the United States to sharpen a satellite image taken back in July that appeared to be a boat drifting in the Tasman Sea. Wright says they refused to help".
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http://news.yahoo.com/lost-text-stalled-search-missing-us-yacht-033705322.html
" July 16, 2014
Satellite telephone service Iridium Communications failed to give New Zealand rescuers details of a dramatic final message from a missing yacht until the US State Department intervened, a review of the search effort said Thursday.
The report into the search for the vintage American yacht Nina, which disappeared in the Tasman Sea in June 2013 with six Americans and one Briton aboard, said the entire dynamic of the rescue operation would have changed had the message been delivered earlier."
" July 16, 2014
Satellite telephone service Iridium Communications failed to give New Zealand rescuers details of a dramatic final message from a missing yacht until the US State Department intervened, a review of the search effort said Thursday.
The report into the search for the vintage American yacht Nina, which disappeared in the Tasman Sea in June 2013 with six Americans and one Briton aboard, said the entire dynamic of the rescue operation would have changed had the message been delivered earlier."
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The mystery of the missing Nina
Two years ago the Nina disappeared, somewhere between Whangarei and Australia. On board was 19 year old Danielle Wright, whose parents refuse to believe she's dead.
www.stuff.co.nz
The mystery of the missing Nina
Parents of Lancaster man lost at sea off New Zealand coast file 'Presumption of Death' notice seven years after he went missing
Matt Wootton was aboard a 70ft schooner in the Tasman Sea when it was hit by a storm in 2013.
www.lancasterguardian.co.uk