The sinking of New Zealand Navy ship Manawanui continues to impact Samoan villages with oil leaks, as the community threatens legal action, the ABC reports.
Tavita Pili can’t see the ship, but he can smell it.
Standing on rocks on the outskirts of his home village of Tafitoala, Samoa, Mr Pili points to the spot where the diesel comes in, at the back of the village, hidden by mangroves.
It’s about a kilometre or two from where it happened; what villagers are now calling “the incident”.
Thursday marks two months to the day since the Royal New Zealand Navy vessel Manawanui ran aground and sank off the coast of Tafitoala.
And two months on, local villagers say they still have no answers.
“We are worried,” he said.
“We can still smell the fuel and even see it come in with the tides.”
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