L’Austral has second accident in a month in New Zealand

The mega-yacht, which has 132 cabins, hit rocks while transferring passengers on Snares Island in January and had to call into Bluff for repairs.

Investigators from New Zealand’s Transport Accident Investigation Commission will go on board L’Austral when she makes a scheduled call at Dunedin on February 11.

‘The fact that it is the second of these events in such a short space of time has given more of a sense of urgency for us to find out what’s actually happening,' Radio New Zealand reported TAIC’s chief, Tim Burfoot, as saying.

Burfoot said the investigators will check L’Austral’s navigation system.

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