Rena gallery

Rena losing containers as heavy swells wash her deck on the starboard side.

12 October 2011 Image credit: Mark Alen

The tanker ship Awanuia and a Port of Auckland tug assist in operations to recover oil from the stranded ship Rena off Tauranga.

17 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Salvage expert Drew Shannon with a sample of the thick black fuel oil from the Rena.

18 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

The angle of the deck makes standing up a challenge.

21 October 2011 Image credit: Svitzer

Photo taken by salvage team looking out of Rena’s bridge showing the list of the vessel against the horizon.

23 October 2011 Image credit: Svitzer

Below Rena’s decks, salvors are working to access the starboard 5 tank to pump the ship’s remaining fuel oil.

30 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

View of the Rena from cockpit.

2 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

The starboard side of Rena’s deck is largely underwater at high tide.

2 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Foilex pumps like this, weighing 90kg each, have been manoeuvred into place to pump heavy oil from the Rena.

7 November 2011 Image credit: LOC

Savlors working in pipe passageway at manhole access to #5 port heavy fuel oil tank.

11 November 2011 Image credit: LOC

The tanker Awanuia has been released this afternoon and the Go Canopus is in position to receive the last of the residual oil from the Rena.

13 November 2011 Image credit: LOC

The container retrieval vessel SeaTow 60 being towed out to the Rena.

14 November 2011 Image credit: LOC

Steve Morrow, Sea Tow 60 Barge Master.

15 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

The #5 port side tank has been inspected and declared empty.

16 November 2011 Image credit: LOC

A salvor being lowered onto Rena to begin container removal.

16 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Two more containers are lifted off Rena. As of midday today, seven more containers have been removed, taking the total to ten.

17 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Seagulls circle food products removed from Rena at the Truman Lane container processing site.

30 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Rena as viewed from the 6am overflight this morning.

1 December 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

The Smit Borneo and the Sea Tow 60 side by side with the Rena in the background.

22 December 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Rena separated into 2 pieces after being battered by 6m waves the previous night.

8 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Stern section of the Rena almost totally submerged, with the bridge barely visible at the left.

13 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

The bridge is clearly visible underwater.

19 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

The Smit Borneo removing a container hatch cover from the sunken aft section.

11 February 2012 Image credit: LOC

A light sheen of oil was visible during the overflight this morning.

13 February 2012 Image credit: LOC

The wreck of the Rena sits on Astrolabe reef, with the Smit Borneo alongside.

24 February 2012 Image credit: LOC

Salvors leaving the wreck site via a purpose built helipad.

15 March 2012 Image credit: LOC

The stern section as seen from the bow.

15 March 2012 Image credit: LOC

View of broken Rena in heavy sea swells.

4 April 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Salvage cranes lift containers and debris the forward section of Rena.

27 May 2012 Image credit: Smit and Svitzer working in a joint salvage venture

A salvor makes his way across Rena’s empty holds where all the hatch covers have been removed.

1 June 2012 Image credit: Smit and Svitzer working in a joint salvage venture

Salvors on board Rena.

22 September 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

The Resolve barge on-site near the bow section.

December 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Oil washing up on the shoreline of Tauranga.

12 October 2011 Image credit: Mark Alen

Reserve soldiers from Auckland cleaning Papamoa Beach after oil from the grounded vessel Rena reaches the shore. Private Clayton Mills and Lance Corporal Daniel Moyle rake oil for collection from the beach surface.

13 October 2011 Image credit: New Zealand Defence Force

Clean-up crews hard at work cleaning the shores on Papamoa Beach.

13 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Containers on the beach just south of Mount Maunganui.

13 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

David Hurn, one of the many hundreds of volunteers involved in the clean up of beaches in the Bay of Plenty, concentrates on the rocks around Mount Maunganui.

21 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

A tractor used in the oil spill clean-up gets a rinse off.

21 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Booms deployed at Maketu Estuary as seen from a distance.

22 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

NZDF personnel continuing with cleanup operations on the northern side of Mount Maunganui.

23 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Diggers prepare a ramp for trucks at the north end of Papamoa beach so containers can be removed.

28 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

A volunteer scrapes oil off rocks.

29 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Benjamin Hoensch from Germany is part of the 100th volunteer cleanup operation held today on Papamoa Beach.

6 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

New Zealand Defence Force personnel painstakingly dig through shells and sand to remove oil at the base of Mt Maunganui (Mauao).

9 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Volunteers using a large sifter to remove tar balls from an area of sand at Papamoa Beach.

11 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Debris from containers off Rena spread over the beach at Matakana Island.

9 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

A container off Rena washed ashore at Waihi beach.

9 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Bags of milk powder off Rena are left strewn across Waihi beach after washing up today.

9 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Clean-ups begins again to clear containers and debris off Waihi Beach.

10 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Clean up operations on Waihi Beach after containers, timber, milk powder and other debris washed up on shore from Rena.

11 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Clean up operations on Waihi Beach after containers, timber, milk powder and other debris washed up on shore from Rena.

11 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Gary McColl assists response teams in deploying booms near Rena site.

12 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Beads that have been washing up on shores at Matakana Island from Rena.

13 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Wiremu Smith from the SCAT team Pukehina and Matata.

13 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Cleanup operations underway on Matakana Island.

19 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Timber has been stacked into piles, ready to be uplifted off Matakana Island.

9 February 2012 Image credit: LOC

Kerri Morgan, Oiled Wildlife Response Coordinator (NOWT), briefs volunteers at the wildlife response centre set up at Tauranga.

7 October 2011 Image credit: Bay of Plenty Regional Council

An oiled penguin being treated at the wildlife rehabilitation facility set up at Tauranga.

7 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Oiled shag being cleaned at the wildlife rehabilitation facility set up at Tauranga.

8 October 2011 Image credit: Massey University

One of the pied shags at the wildlife restoration centre takes a swim to help restore its waterproofing.

11 October 2011 Image credit: Massey University

Birds who were casualties of the Rena oil spill.

22 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Helicopter Crewman Sergeant Karl Borck assists Department of Conservation Rangers to load oiled penguins aboard an Air Force Iroquois helicopter from Motiti Island.

13 October 2011 Image credit: New Zealand Defence Force

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key with Little Blue penguins, recovering from their encounter with fuel oil from the container ship Rena.

18 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

DOC staff capture a rare New Zealand Dotterell to take into protective captivity.

18 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

What the seabirds have been eating - pureed fish.

22 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

A tagged dotterel at the Wildlife Centre.

22 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

The first batch of cleaned penguins are released back into the wild at Mt Maunganui.

22 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

A penguin is rubbed down with cooking oil - one of liquids used to aid the removal of Rena fuel oil.

22 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Oiled Wildlife Facility staff feed anchovies to a little blue penguin.

26 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

A little blue penguin gets the star wash treatment at the Oiled Wildlife Response Centre.

28 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

A little blue penguin gets the star wash treatment at the Oiled Wildlife Response Centre.

28 October 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Vet Janelle Ward with a New Zealand Dotterel at the Wildlife Response Centre.

1 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Kaumatua Huriwaka Rewa and NZ dotterel expert John Dowding with one of the dotterel about to be released.

3 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Te Maunga Wildlife Response Centre - The penguin enclosures and swimming pools are at the centre of this photo.

14 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Little blue penguin undergoing blood test and other vet checks prior to its release tomorrow!

21 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Cleaned penguins undergoing a six hour swim test at the wildlife facility.

21 November 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Kerri Morgan gets a reluctant penguin on its way.

8 December 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Little blue penguin release at Motiti Island.

18 December 2011 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

Little blue penguins housed at Massey are going through their annual moulting process.

19 January 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand

The last major release of penguins out at Motiti Island happened today. Catarina Cruz (left) age 11 of Tauranga, Marco Cruz, age 10 of Tauranga, Carlijn Bouwman from the wildlife centre, and Zeta Schuler, age 7 from Waihi at Motiti Island.

17 February 2012 Image credit: Maritime New Zealand