{"id":21150,"date":"2025-09-14T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T02:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21150\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T02:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T02:59:09","slug":"tugboat-sent-to-rescue-tanker-stuck-near-stewart-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21150\/","title":{"rendered":"Tugboat sent to rescue tanker stuck near Stewart Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default img-responsive\" data-delta=\"2\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tugbortrrnz.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"507\" alt=\"The MMA Vision tugboat had been contracted by the government as a standby tug for the Cook Strait...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The MMA Vision tugboat had been contracted by the government as a standby tug for the Cook Strait ferries. Photo: Maritime NZ<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">By Anna Sargent of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An open ocean tugboat is on its way to rescue an oil and chemical tanker stuck off the coast of Stewart Island.<\/p>\n<p>Maritime NZ said the\u00a0Golden Mind\u00a0tanker got into steering difficulties west of the island on Wednesday, and the ship and crew had remained there since then.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been informed that the owners of\u00a0Golden Mind\u00a0has contracted the ocean-going tug\u00a0MMA Vision\u00a0to provide towage assistance,&#8221; Maritime NZ said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Towage arrangements are made between the commercial parties involved &#8211; in this case,\u00a0Golden Mind&#8217;s\u00a0owners and\u00a0MMA Vision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MMA Vision\u00a0set off from Wellington on Thursday and was expected to reach the stuck tanker Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tugbortrrnza.jpg\" width=\"816\" height=\"510\" alt=\"MMA Vision (marked in blue) set off from Wellington on Thursday and was expected to reach the...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MMA Vision (marked in blue) set off from Wellington on Thursday and was expected to reach the stuck tanker (marked in red) Sunday afternoon.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Marine Traffic<\/p>\n<p>The plan was to tow the vessel to Timaru.<\/p>\n<p>No distress calls had been issued and its Rescue Coordination Centre continued to monitor the situation, Maritime NZ said.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0MMA Vision\u00a0tugboat had been contracted by\u00a0the government\u00a0as a standby tug for the Cook Strait ferries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/573008\/tugboat-sent-to-rescue-oil-tanker-stuck-near-stewart-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"3\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rnz_banner_rs_060825.jpg\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MMA Vision tugboat had been contracted by the government as a standby tug for the Cook Strait&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-21150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}