
Tonga: Images may reveal bodies - navy
Remote operated vehicle (ROV) expected to be deployed again once weather clears on Monday evening.
Remote operated vehicle (ROV) expected to be deployed again once weather clears on Monday evening.
A sonar image of a sunken wreck believed to be the Princess Ashika has been released by the Navy.
At least 93 people who drowned in the Princess Ashika are likely to be forever buried at sea because the wreck - found yesterday - is too deep.
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.
A former North Otago rugby representative is believed to have been among those killed in the Tongan ferry disaster.
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 team of 12 navy divers and a three-member remote search team will leave for Tonga this evening.
A New Zealand woman is "just trying to hold onto hope" that her mother, brother and sister have survived the sinking of an inter-island ferry in Tonga.
Rescuers are now looking for 64 missing passengers after the number on board a Tongan ferry that sank on Wednesday was revised up to 119.
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.