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Monday, November 05, 2007

HMNZS Canterbury New Zealand's newest scuba diving attraction

It was time for the old navy sea dogs to slip on their sunglasses and turn away from others to hide the tears as they watched their old navy ship scuttled in the Far North during the weekend.

Several former members of the ship's company of the navy's last steam warship, the Leander-class frigate HMNZS Canterbury, were allowed back on board the ship as it lay at anchor in Deep Water Cove near Cape Brett in the Bay of Islands on Saturday, waiting to be scuttled as a dive attraction.

Two hours later when 8kg of explosive sent the 37-year-old, 3000-tonne ship to the bottom in four minutes, the emotion took over for some.

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