Well, DEI strikes again. This time down under in New Zealand, where a lesbian captain managed to lose a $100 million dollar ship. Just like that—poof, it’s gone. But hey, at least she checks the diversity box, so we guess that softens the blow, right?
Her name is Commander Yvonne Gray, a lesbian woman from North Yorkshire, England.
She and her wife, Sharon, fell in love with New Zealand during a camper holiday and decided to make it their home. This article from 2022 highlights the doomed captain.
Woman from Harrogate finds ‘perfect niche’ as commander in the Royal New Zealand Navy
Harrogate-born Yvonne Gray trained as a teacher and once hoped to open her own restaurant.
Instead she said she found her perfect niche as a naval officer, first in the Royal Navy and now in the Pacific with the Royal New Zealand Navy.
Now Commander Gray has taken the helm of the RNZN’s dive, hydrographic and salvage vessel HMNZS Manawanui.
It is her first ship command in a naval career that started in the UK in 1993 as a warfare officer.
Her service as a warfare officer ranged from working on aircraft carriers to frigates and mine hunters.
In 2012, Commander Gray and her wife Sharon moved to New Zealand after falling in love with the country during a camper van holiday.
“The most obvious thing to do was join the Royal New Zealand Navy,” she said.
As the Commanding Officer of the RNZN’s Mine Counter Measures Team, she participated in activities all over the world, and her role in maritime evaluation has seen her help ‘work up’ ships and crews to peak efficiency.
She said her eyes lit up at the thought of taking command of Manawanui, which entered service with the Royal New Zealand Navy three years ago.
However, after Gray lost an entire ship, you have to wonder—was she truly qualified for the job, or was her being a woman and a lesbian the key qualification?
Speaking of that fateful ship, back in 2018, the HMNZS Manawanui was bought for $103 million by the Defense Ministry. Fast forward just six years, and it’s now an expensive memory, all thanks to diversity, equity, and inclusion, which reign supreme in New Zealand. Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern paved the woke way for policies that are now tearing the country apart—along with the rest of the world.
This is the message from the New Zealand Royal Defence Force.
It seems as though Captain Gray fit right into the “look” NZDF was going for.
Sadly, however, the ship didn’t just run aground—it also caught fire and sank to the bottom of the sea in all its diverse glory. And ironically, the press is not critical of Captain Gray, instead, they’re praising her for “saving lives.”
Anything to save the left’s precious narrative, right?
Commander of HMNZS Manawanui credited with saving lives after ship ran aground on Samoan reef in dead of night
The actions of the commander of the HMNZS Manawanui have been credited with saving lives during a nighttime evacuation in heavy seas and winds on a reef near the southern coast of Upolu in Samoa last night.
The Chief of Navy, Rear Admiral Garin Golding, said the ship ran aground at 6.46pm and tried unsuccessfully to get off the reef.
It then began to list and at 7.52pm Commander Yvonne Gray decided to evacuate the ship.
Golding said the 75 people on board, including seven citizens on scientific work and four foreign personnel, got on liferafts and tried to move away from the reef so they could be rescued.
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Golding praised the leadership of the experienced Gray, saying she made the right call to order the evacuation and would have “saved lives”.
“The commanding officer’s swift decision to evacuate the ship likely prevented the loss of life.”
The sinking was first time the Navy had lost a ship during peacetime, he said.
So much for accountability.
Incredibly, this is the first ship New Zealand has lost since World War II.
The Royal New Zealand Navy has lost its first ship to the sea since World War Two, after one of its vessels ran aground off the coast of Samoa.
The HMNZS Manawanui, a specialist diving and ocean imaging ship, came into trouble about one nautical mile from the island of Upolu on Saturday night local time, while conducting a survey of a reef.
It later caught fire before capsizing.
All 75 people on board were evacuated onto lifeboats and rescued early on Sunday, according to New Zealand’s Defence Force said in a statement.
New Zealand said the cause of the grounding was unknown and will be investigated.
The incident occurred during a bout of rough and windy weather.
Military officials said rescuers “battled” currents and winds that pushed life rafts and sea boats towards the reefs, and swells made rescue efforts “challenging”.
Officials said the area had not been surveyed since 1987.
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The HMNZS Manawanui is the first of New Zealand’s naval vessels to be unintentionally sunk since the nation participated in naval battles during World War Two.
They’re calling it an utter disaster—and to top it off, the whole thing was caught on camera.
It’s no surprise that the person at the helm was a DEI pick. We’ve seen the same downfall in our own military—and, of course, in the airline industry, too.
We’ve covered the left’s dangerous DEI agenda from every angle, and the pattern is always the same: when you trade excellence for charity, bad things happen.
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The recent accident in Houston is just the latest noteworthy instance in what a major New York Times investigation this summer determined to be “an alarming pattern of safety lapses and near misses in the skies and on the runways in the USA.” According to internal records of the Federal Aviation Agency, the Times reported that these safety lapses and near misses occurred as a “result of human error.” The Times report further revealed that “runway incursions” of the sort described above have nearly doubled, from 987 to 1732, despite the widespread proliferation of advanced technologies.
A follow-up report by the Times revealed that Austin’s airport alone has experienced so many close calls as a result of air traffic controller error that a pilot proclaimed, “They’re trying to kill us in Austin.” One such incident involved an air traffic controller clearing a FedEx cargo plane to land on a runway just as a Southwest Airlines jet was set to take off on the same runway. The air traffic controller in question said the Southwest jet would take off before the FedEx plane got too close, though the two planes ended up just seconds from colliding, with the FedEx plane skimming less than 100 feet over the Southwest jet, whose 128 passengers had no clue how narrowly they just escaped death.
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Despite the remarkable lack of transparency with respect to such near misses and the air traffic controllers behind them, the Times was able to identify the controller behind this incident as one Damian Campbell, a “Navy veteran and self-published poet.” According to the report, even fellow air traffic controllers were “baffled” by Campbell’s actions. Still more baffling is the fact that Campbell is apparently back on the job. FAA’s policy is not to take disciplinary action against a controller unless he or she is guilty of “gross negligence” or illegal activity.
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The case of Damian Campbell and the near-collision incident in Austin, together with numerous other such incidents, raise troubling questions that deserve further scrutiny. Revolver News conducted an investigation into the matter in considerable depth. We spoke with several air traffic and FAA personnel, most of whom insisted on staying anonymous and off the record.
While the disturbing decline in aviation safety is complex and multifaceted, we identified two major contributing factors that have received scant media attention. The first such factor is the likely contribution of disastrous COVID-era policies to the staffing shortage of many air traffic control rooms. The second factor is that aggressive affirmative action policies implemented during the Obama administration have resulted in a catastrophic collapse in the quality of controllers. In short, COVID policies have gutted the quantity of air traffic controllers, and diversity policies have gutted the quality of air traffic controllers, creating unprecedented danger for the aviation industry.
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At its bedrock, infrastructure is substantially just people: a population of workers with the expertise and experience to keep a complex system functional, reliable, and accident-free. Decline in this infrastructure — the human infrastructure — may be papered over with improved technology and automation. But when problems do arise, it is impossible to miss the decay.
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As for this disaster, Defence Minister Judith Collins (another DEI appointee?) told the media in Auckland that a Court of Inquiry will be launched to figure out why the ship ran aground, caught fire, and capsized.
Well, we’d suggest they start by investigating the DEI hiring practices—and maybe ask whether the lesbian captain was ever qualified to command that ship in the first place.
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