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.