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A video of a ship caught in a giant wave is making the rounds on social media after an earthquake hit Indonesia, killing 260 people and injuring hundreds of others.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is more than a decade old and shows the Royal New Zealand Navy's HMNZS Wellington sailing to Antarctica for sea trials.
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake left more than 260 dead and hundreds injured on Indonesia’s main island of Java on November 21. Among the many videos of the natural disaster and its aftermath shared on social media was that of a ship caught in a giant wave.
The terrifying video shot from the ship itself, shows a giant wave crashing into its bow. The intensity of the water at one point even cuts off the camera’s view. Those sharing it claimed that it was from Cianjur, a town and district in the West Java province of Indonesia.
Some claimed that over 50 people died while others said the number was 160. Archived versions of such a post can be seen here and here. It’s noteworthy that the hardest-hit city during the earthquake was reportedly Cianjur.
AFWA found that the video in question shows the New Royal New Zealand Navy Offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Wellington sailing to Antarctica and is from about a decade ago.
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A reverse image search of the video’s keyframes led us to a 2016 report published on the website Marine Insight According to this report, this footage showed the Royal New Zealand Navy’s vessel HMNZS Otago being hit by waves as tall as 20 metres. The vessel, reportedly, was on a three-week patrol in the Southern Ocean or the Antarctic Ocean when it encountered these waves. The report also included the YouTube video that was shared by someone called Alex Croucher on December 24, 2015.
The same was reported by the Daily Mail in 2016. Its report too, included the same YouTube video.
Based on the idea that the ship was part of the Royal New Zealand Navy, we ran a keyword search and found a similar video shared on the Royal New Zealand Navy's YouTube channel. This 2012 video, which contained the viral clip, however, did not list the vessel as HMNZS Otago. Rather, the video mentioned it was the HMNZS Wellington. Per the video’s description, the clip was shot during a sea trial by the Navy.
The video begins with text about testing the Navy's new offshore patrol vessel in the Southern Ocean or the Antarctic Ocean in February 2011. Simon Griffith, the Commanding Officer of HMNZS Wellington, described the journey in the video.
Both the HMNZS Wellington and HMNZS Otago are Offshore Patrol Vessels, “designed for maritime surveillance, supply and support and patrol missions around New Zealand’s 15,000-kilometre coast, the Southern Ocean and into the Pacific.”
Thus, it is clear that this video has nothing to do with the earthquake in Indonesia.
(With inputs from Ashish Kumar)
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