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Daylight is visible through the crack on the port side of Rena - 5 November
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Water surges on to the starboard side of Rena - 5 November
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Container found using WASSP - A WASSP Multibeam Sonar is being used by hydrographic surveyors at the grounding of the 236m-cargo vessel CV Rena on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast of New Zealand, to locate lost containers
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Imagery of the seafloor generated by a WASSP multibeam sonar around the Astrolabe Reef, the location of the Rena grounding in New Zealand.
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Container Positions - A WASSP Multibeam Sonar is being used by hydrographic surveyors at the grounding of the 236m-cargo vessel CV Rena on the Astrolabe Reef off the coast of New Zealand, to locate lost containers
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Rena on the Astrolabe Reef as seen from an observation flight at 6am - 6 November
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Locater beacons (called "pingers") have been attached to containers in precarious positions - 7 November
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Foilex pumps like this, weighing 90kg each, have been manoeuvred into place to pump heavy oil from the Rena- 7 November
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Preparations for pumping off the remaining heavy fuel include placing more than 150m of hose (weighing 3 tonnes), two large pumps and up to 40m of ladders, which are being used to create a smooth, straight path for the oil - 7 November
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New Zealand Defence Force personnel use salt water to flush oil off rocks at the base of Mt Maunganui - 8 November
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New Zealand Defence Force teams pump sea water from rock pools so they can flush oil away from the shoreline at the base of Mt Maunganui - 8 November
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Oil flushed off the rocks with salt water is caught in a holding pond like this one, where absorbent materials attract oil to prevent it returning to the sea - 8 November
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