The Rena has split

This photo by Maritime NZ, at the Herald, shows that the Rena has finally split in two.

Inevitably it means more containers will be lost at sea, but not necessarily all the remaining ones. It looks like they may be able to continue moving the containers off, once the weather improves. However it will be much riskier I suspect.

You look at that photo, and think that is not a place you would want to be.