Sue is interviewed by Radio New Zealand:
Lost at Sea (The Sydney Morning Herald)
The schooner Niña disappeared during a storm in the Tasman Sea last June. Frank Robson meets the parents of one of the missing crew, who continue to search for their daughter.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/lost-at-sea-20140205-32039.html#ixzz2t3qL9yK1
An update from Robin Wright
A message from Robin Wright:
Ricky and I are wrapping up our visit to Australia and New Zealand in the next 2 weeks. It’s hard to even think about coming home without Danielle, but we’ve done everything we know to do to search for Nina and 7 very special people. We know they can survive whatever the Tasman throws at them with God’s hand of protection covering them. Please keep all the family members and the crew in your thoughts and prayers as we continue to wait for our loved ones to resurface. Here’s a few photos in New Zealand and Australia…
Niña Crew Not Ready to Give Up
TV New Zealand news story. Update on how we are continuing the search effort and looking for answers from Officials.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/family-missing-nina-crew-not-ready-give-up-5816913/video
Message from Robin Wright:
Thank you Jehan Casinader and Lee Frashier for covering our story and for taking us to Whangarei and Opua. It was a little disappointing that the broadcast seemed to suggest that we expect New Zealanders to foot the bill for our continued search for 7 precious lives. The fact is that we, with the help of many, many concerned people from all over the world, have raised and spent over $600,000 on private searches so far, and all of that money was spent in New Zealand and Australia. We and other family members have taken money from our personal savings, even Danielle’s college fund, to attempt to locate Nina as we believe she is still drifting. The boat in the satellite image looks just like Nina, and was found out in the middle of the Tasman where experts told us Nina should be. It’s time for RCCNZ to provide the families with the technical data used in their determination that the satellite image is “not likely Nina” so we can have closure on this issue. But if that satellite image is of the Nina and RCCNZ did not go out and rescue the crew as is their responsibility, we will know the truth soon enough when Nina drifts to shore and the crew can verify their location on September 16th. Evi Nemeth is certainly charting their course and we will be able to see exactly where Nina drifted all these months.
Praying for God’s provision and protection over our loved ones!
Search Continues for American Schooner Missing at Sea Since June (People Magazine)
Search Continues for American Schooner Missing at Sea Since June
Wrights Still Searching for Missing Daughter
Article from the Advocate: Wrights still searching for missing daughter
BY BILLY GUNN
January 01, 2014
December 2013 General Update
. . . . . . . . . . . A Lot to be Thankful For . . . . . . . . .
Update 30 December 2013
Update 26 December 16:00 CST Houston = 27 December 2013 09:00 local time Maryborough AUS
Ricky Wright departed local airport to visually air search islands for the schooner Nina and its crew of 7.
Update December 24, 2013 on the eve, from the Auckland New Zealand Herald and to the NZ Herald a huge thank you for your concern for our 7 loved ones from the families and friends of those lost offshore the Tasman. We have great hope especially at this time. Merry Christmas New Zealand.
The New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11176847
The Advocate
http://theadvocate.com/home/7925281-125/wrights-still-searching-for-missing
Update December 15, 2013
Air search now by Australian pilots volunteering to help locate the schooner Nina and its crew of 7.
The Wrights, parents of Danielle Wright remain in Australia to assist in the air seacrh efforts.
New Zealand ocean systems has now offered to assist in the currents and winds models.
Hope is what this search is all about: we need your help to get the resources back out there to search.
There needs to be serious improvements in the manner that search and rescue managers and agencies manage their day to day jobs. This includes serious changes to honor the common practices to search early not late.
Dec 26th Visual Air Search Update
Update 26 December 16:00 CST Houston = 27 December 2013 09:00 local time Maryborough AUS
Ricky Wright departed local airport to visually air search islands for the schooner Nina and its crew of 7.
Santa Keeps an Eye Out for the Niña
Updated December 24, 2013 on the eve, from the Auckland New Zealand Herald and to the NZ Herald a huge thank you for your concern for our 7 loved ones from the families and friends of those lost offshore the Tasman. We have great hope especially at this time. Merry Christmas New Zealand.
Niña Search: The Hunt for Danielle
Article from The New Zealand Herald: Niña Search: The Hunt for Danielle
By Anna Leask
5:30 AM Monday Dec 23, 2013