Oil Spills from Container Ship Grounded on New Zealand Reef: "TAURANGA, New Zealand, October 6, 2011 (ENS) - A slick of heavy fuel oil five kilometers (three miles) long extends northward from the damaged container ship Rena, which ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef about 2:20 am on Wednesday.
Fuel is leaking from the Liberian-flagged vessel, which is stranded on Astrolabe Reef about 11.5 nautical miles from the Tauranga coast at the north end of New Zealand's North Island."
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