Coastguard Mana / January 2013
Coastguard Mana is an affiliated member of Coastguard New Zealand and is a Unit of Coastguard Central Region. We are based at the Mana Cruising Club / Mana Marina on the west coast of the North Island, just up the road from Wellington. Our area of responsibility covers the Mana inshore recreational area and the northern end of Cook Strait across to the top of the Marlborough Sounds.
- Tagged as:
- boating
- emergencyservices
- kapiti
- sport
- places
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Yacht with fishing net around propeller
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Mon, 28/01/2013 - 22:15 - Tue, 29/01/2013 - 01:00 Operation Type: SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted: 2 Total Volunteer Hours: 22 A yacht picked up a fishing net in it's propeller at Mana Island on a very calm, still night. Drifting onto nearby rocks on Mana Island, Coastguard Mana were called to assist. They had managed to quickly deploy their anchor to stop them from hitting shore and CRV Trust Porirua Rescue approached and took the yacht under tow. Vessel Details Length: 8.50m Resources Attendees: AlanFisher james bass Mark Presling Paul Craven Peter Feely Peter Tse Trevor Burgess Trevor Farmer CRV's Used: CRV Pelorus CRV Trust Porirua Rescue read more
- Accepted from Coastguard Mana news
- Tagged as:
- porirua
-41.09575, 174.776902
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Runabout broken down in channel
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Sun, 27/01/2013 - 11:00 - 11:30 Operation Type: CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted: 2 Total Volunteer Hours: 2 While doing training exercises in Mana Marina we were approached by a man saying he'd broken down just around the corner and needed a tow home. He and his wife had beached his 4.4m runabout in the channel after drifting ashore and walked back to Mana marina to look for assistance. His main engine had come to a stop for an unknown reason and then he was unable to start his auxilary engine either. Successfully towed back to Mana Marina to put on trailer. Vessel Details Length: 4.40m Resources Attendees: Mark Presling Matt Annear MasterChe Peter Tse CRV's Used: CRV Pelorus
- Accepted from Coastguard Mana news
- Automatically tagged as:
- boating
- emergency-services
- kapiti
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