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On Wednesday, 5 October 2011, at 2:20 AM while sailing from Napier to Tauranga, the Rena ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef off the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
News of the grounding was first reported at 21:18 on the BBC's Nine O'Clock News - just over an hour after she ran aground.