Hello Clyde,
The whole situation has become old news now, unless you specifically go looking on the internet for the latest information you will not hear about it. Everything is back to normal here, the local hotels are doing a great trade with all the salvage experts coming into Tauranga. I have heard there is no more oil onboard the vessel and all the containers that have sunk are not going anywhere. Braemer Howells brought a underwater vessel a few months back that is capable of recovering containers that have reached the bottom of the seafloor. The forward section of the wreck has nearly all of it's containers removed with only the very damaged ones still left in there. I know as the stern section slow gets cut away they will look at ways of recovering those containers but at this stage it is too dangerous.
Although the Rena was the worst maritime accident to happen to NZ the media were constantly rehashing the same news which did put the situation alittle out of proportion. Now that they don't report on it, no one talks about it or really even cares.
Regards Robbie