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Speaker 1: Why the thinking of the Manawanui Why? It's the question

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Speaker 1: we all want answered this morning, But what we are

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Speaker 1: likely to get is a bunch of speculation. The first

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Speaker 1: most important question has been answered. Is the crew safe? Yes,

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Speaker 1: mostly thankfully and by the sounds of it, thanks in

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Speaker 1: large part to help from others and the decision to

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Speaker 1: abandon ship, plus a dose of good luck. Some of

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Speaker 1: the crew spent five hours in life rafts. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine battling the conditions to make it to show one

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Speaker 1: capsize before getting there? But we have so many whys.

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Speaker 1: How comes We've just lost our first navy vessel since

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Speaker 1: World War II, worth one hundred billion bucks, just gone

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Speaker 1: up and smoke, sunk to the bottom of the ocean.

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Speaker 1: Why did the Monawanu hit a reef? Was it human error?

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Speaker 1: Was it mechanical failure? What happened on the bridge in

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Speaker 1: the moments leading up to the collision? Where was the

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Speaker 1: officer of the watch? Were there no alarms that sound

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Speaker 1: before something like this happens? Was it the weather? Why

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Speaker 1: was it surveying so close to a known reef at night?

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Speaker 1: Why did it catch fire? We have so many questions

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Speaker 1: and so far zero answers. We know the sea was rough,

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Speaker 1: the wind was strong, but that's about it. The Navy

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Speaker 1: and the minister both say we'll wait for a court

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Speaker 1: of inquiry. But is that good enough. Surely they have

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Speaker 1: some idea of what went wrong by now, what's the

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Speaker 1: harm in the public knowing what happened? Can we not

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Speaker 1: handle the truth? We've been here before, remember the entire

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Speaker 1: islander grounding. There were crickets until New Zealand first started

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Speaker 1: tweeting up a storm. We learned from the Northland Pylon

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Speaker 1: debarcle that officials pretty much knew straight away what went wrong,

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Speaker 1: but we wait for inquiries and reports and courts to

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Speaker 1: tell us the truth months later. This, I think is

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Speaker 1: more media management than investigation integrity. And the problem with

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Speaker 1: this strategy is the void gets filled with a bunch

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Speaker 1: of speculation rather than facts, at least as established thus far,

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Speaker 1: and a little bit of accuracy, A little bit of

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Speaker 1: accurate information is surely better than a whole bunch of

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