 They were sent back on two less seaworthy boats, and shipwrecked off Rote Island, Indonesia on 31 May 2015.News about the ship broke on the 1 June 2015 by the Indonesian police

On the 2nd of June 2015 New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was asked about the situation in the New Zealand media.He said if one boat made it New Zealand "it would open up a pretty easy pathway to replicate" In one interview he would not say which New Zealand authorities first found out about the boat, or whether New Zealand's spy agencies had been involved, saying it was "a while ago, but I can't really go into all the details for some obvious reasons, but yeah, I knew some time ago."