
Tonga: Ferry located but too deep for divers to reach
Sonar images indicate a vessel which fits the general size and shape of the Princess Ashika.
Sonar images indicate a vessel which fits the general size and shape of the Princess Ashika.
Divers hope to know today if a rope found in the water is attached to the ferry which sank last week with the loss of up to 93 lives.
The Government is to help Tonga find a replacement for the ferry that sank a week ago with the loss of nearly 100 lives.
New Zealand navy divers may know late tonight whether the object attached to a rope spotted in Tongan waters is the sunken Princess Ashika.
Even ferry is found, it could be too deep to recover any bodies.
Latest count of those aboard ill-fated ferry indicates 93 people are still missing.
The number of people believed to have been on board the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika when it sank on Wednesday has risen to 141.
A survivor has told how he called frantically for his cousin for hours while in a lifeboat, but did not get a response.
A team of 12 navy divers and a three-member remote search team will leave for Tonga this evening.
A survivor says the vessel rolled so quickly that women and children sleeping below decks had no chance to escape.
A survivor of Tonga's ferry disaster says the vessel rolled so quickly in rough seas that women and children sleeping below decks had no chance to escape.
One of the two bodies recovered after the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika sank last night has a NZ connection.
One of the two bodies recovered after the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika sank last night has a NZ connection.
A survivor has described how the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika overturned and all the women and children perished.
NZ's Rescue Coordination Centre has launched a major search operation after a ferry carrying 79 people sank off Tonga.