新西兰英语 583 Rena report

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　　This week, a 20 page report gave the facts of what happened. The ship had just come from the port of Napier. It was 13 hours late leaving Napier because it had to wait for another ship to be unloaded first. When the Rena got close to the port of Tauranga, the captain was told to hurry to get there by 3am before the tide changed. If he waited at sea until 7am, it would cost about $6,000. The captain decided² to take a short cut. At 2.05am, he heard an echo on the radar³ and looked through binoculars⁴ but saw nothing. At 2.14am, the ship hit a reef.

　　Although an officer has to make a mark on the chart every 20 minutes to show their position, the sailor keeping watch – not an officer – did this at 1am and 1.20am. That was the last mark on the chart.

　　Listen to October 9th 2011 to hear more about this or type “Rena” in the search box to hear what happened afterwards.

　　Vocabulary

　　reef – rocks

　　facts – things that are true

　　unloaded – goods taken off a ship

　　take a short cut – go in a straight line instead of going around something

　　echo – a sound is repeated

　　binoculars – use both eyes to look through this to see something far away

　　chart – detailed map

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