Two rescued as boat sank in Dimanyat Islands
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Two persons were rescued by Police Aviation after their boat capsized off the coast of Al Dimaniyat Islands, the Royal Oman Police said on Monday. SHARE ARTICLE Most Read
Indonesian navy confirms submarine sank
Indonesian navy confirms submarine sank
WORLD: An Indonesian submarine that vanished off the coast of Bali has sunk, the navy said yesterday (Apr 24), dashing hopes that its 53 crew would be saved.
Sunday 25 April 2021, 03:00PM
The KRI Nanggala 402, one of five submarines in the Indonesian fleet, disappeared early Wednesday during live torpedo training exercises off Bali. Debris found yesterday was confirmed to have come from the sub, navy officials said. Photo: AFP.
The navy’s chief said a search party had recovered fragments from the KRI Nanggala 402 including items from inside the vessel, whose oxygen reserves were already believed to have run out.
The Country - Harvest edition
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Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay spoke to Sank Macfarlane, who has started harvesting at New Zealand s largest commercial medical cannabis crop on his Winterborn farm on the coast of Kēkerengū.
On with the show:
Pita Alexander:
The Christchurch farm accountant went back in time to 1991 to compare the fortunes of sheep and beef farmers in the intervening 30 years. Plus, we looked at the relative returns from dairy, horticulture, forestry and sheep/beef.
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Sank McFarlane:
We talked to one of the brothers (the other, Winston, was a Team NZ grinder in 2003 and 2007) about the harvest of New Zealand s biggest medical cannabis crop (10 hectares) in Kēkerengu, halfway between Kaikōura and Blenheim.
Photos: Ōpononi s Ventnor memorial honours 499 Chinese goldminers lost at sea
11 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Members of a Chinese dance troupe place incense sticks at the Ventnor memorial. Photo / Peter de Graaf
Members of a Chinese dance troupe place incense sticks at the Ventnor memorial. Photo / Peter de Graaf
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A memorial to 499 Chinese gold miners whose remains were lost at sea when the SS Ventnor sank off Hokianga Harbour in 1902 and the west coast Māori who recovered the bones and buried them alongside their own people was dedicated in Ōpononi on Saturday. More than 200 members of New Zealand s Chinese community, from as far away as Dunedin, attended the ceremony along with iwi, government ministers and MPs.
12 dead and 4 missing after fishing boat sinks in eastern China
4 Apr, 2021 09:46 AM
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A fishing port in Zhoushan, East China s Zhejiang Province. Photo / Getty Images
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A Chinese fishing boat capsized and sank early Sunday off the coast of the eastern Zhejiang province, killing at least 12 people and leaving four missing, according to state media reports.
Four of the 20 crew members were rescued alive, and search efforts were ongoing, said China s official Xinhua News Agency.
Maritime search teams dispatched helicopters and rescue vessels for the operation, and nearby fishing boats also joined in Xinhua said the maritime provincial search and rescue center received a report at 4:28am local time on Sunday that the boat had capsized.