Sinking yacht threatened Cook Strait power cables
“It had submerged, but part of the structure was poking out of the water,” Grogan said on Tuesday. Authorities lost track of the drifting wreck until a commercial fishing boat struck it about 16 kilometres away at 10pm, near Cape Jackson, tearing a hole in its hull. Police search and rescue co-ordinator and Blenheim senior sergeant Peter Payne said Coastguard Marlborough delivered a pump to the fishing boat so it could remove the water it had taken on. SUPPLIED The boat sank by The Brothers/Ngāwhatu Kai-ponu, in red, and was hit by a fishing boat by Cape Jackson, in orange.