Rena media update #145 – Friday 6 January 2012
Rena media update #145 – Friday 6 January 2012
10.30am
Salvage
• A
total of 17 containers were removed from the no. 5 and 6
holds on Rena yesterday. Salvors
plan to continue with container removal operations today
while the weather remains favourable. This brings the total
estimated number of containers still on board to 881.
• 389 containers in total have been removed from Rena , with 98 in total believed to
have been lost overboard.
• Salvors are preparing the
ship for severe bad weather this weekend, with a low
pressure system now expected to arrive on Saturday evening,
carrying through to Sunday, with the worst weather now
expected on Monday (9 Jan). This is forecast to result in a
maximum wave height of 6-7m, which is among the worst
weather to be forecast so far.
• In expectation of the
bad weather front, salvors will