Just in case you’ve man­aged to avoid the sat­u­ra­tion cov­er­age across the news media for the last week or so, today marks the 40th anniver­sary of the Wahine dis­as­ter.

We won’t add to the pletho­ra of sto­ries (well, we are with this sto­ry I sup­pose, but, well, err…) we most­ly just want­ed to make note of one arti­cle in the NZ Her­ald, enti­tled…

Wahine tick­et revives ter­ri­fy­ing mem­o­ries (+pho­tos, audio)

Ahhh, yes. It’ll be the tick­et reviv­ing those ter­ri­fy­ing mem­o­ries. Not the bar­rage of pho­tos, audio or video.

Any­way, cyn­i­cism aside, it was a trag­ic event in Welling­ton’s his­to­ry, and we’ll be tak­ing a qui­et moment today to remem­ber the vic­tims, and to salute the many brave peo­ple who risked their own lives to head to the beach­es (and, in some cas­es, out into the storm-lashed waters), to help res­cue the hun­dreds of pas­sen­gers and crew of the ship who had been thrown into the sea from the founder­ing ship.