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Lesbian ‘DEI hire’ captain charged over sinking of $100M navy ship
Lesbian 'DEI hire' captain charged over sinking of navy ship
The lesbian "DEI hire" captain of a Royal New Zealand Navy ship that ran aground and sank off Samoa has been charged with negligence along with two others.
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The lesbian “diversity hire” captain of a Royal New Zealand Navy ship that ran aground and sank off Samoa has been charged with negligence along with two other officers over the loss of the vessel.
The $100 million HMNZS Manawanui, which was under the command of UK-born homosexual Yvonne Gray, crashed on the south side of Upolu on October 5, 2024, due to human error including failure to turn off autopilot, an inquiry found last year.
Commander Gray, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Gajzago and a third officer will now face court-martial over the disaster, which was the navy’s first ship loss since World War 2, and resulted in New Zealand paying Samoa NZ$6 million in compensation for environmental destruction that resulted from the crash.
The charges were laid and certified for trial on Monday, and while pleas have not been entered Commander Gray indicated through her lawyers that she intends to fight the allegations, The New Zealand Herald reported.
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Another of the female captains praised alongside Ms. Gray, Fiona Jameson, crashed her own ship in May 2024.
“The direct cause of the grounding has been determined as a series of human errors which meant the ship’s autopilot was not disengaged when it should have been,” Chief of Navy Rear Admiral Garin Golding said while announcing the results of the inquiry in November.
“The crew did not realize Manawanui remained in autopilot and, as a consequence, mistakenly believed its failure to respond to direction changes was the result of a thruster control failure.
“Having mistakenly assessed a thruster control failure, standard procedures should have prompted ship’s crew to check that the ship was under manual control rather than in autopilot. This check did not occur.
“Remaining in autopilot resulted in the ship maintaining a course toward land, until grounding and eventually stranding.”
Commentary:
The tragic result of DEI. Per the article, another New Zealand Navy DEI-hire lesbian commanding officer also sunk her vessel in 2024. Two for two.
At least this didn't happen in the Netherlands, they could have hit dykes.
