Press Release – Waikato Regional Council Waikato Regional Council staff have been deployed to a bay on the Coromandel Peninsula after a slick was found following an overnight boat fire. Its understood 2000 litres of diesel was on board the 47-foot fibreglass launch that caught fire and … Waikato Regional Council staff have been deployed to a bay on the Coromandel Peninsula after a slick was found following an overnight boat fire. It’s understood 2000 litres of diesel was on board the 47-foot fibreglass launch that caught fire and sunk in the early hours of this morning in Woolshed Bay, Whanganui Island. People on board at the time the fire started were able to escape safely.