Coastguard Mana
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Flashing light sighted
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Tue, 02/03/2010 - 23:30 - Wed, 03/03/2010 - 00:30 Operation Type: SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted: 0 Police received a call from a member of the public regarding a sighting of a light flashing intermittently off the coast of Plimmerton towards Mana Island. Coastguard Mana were tasked to go out and search for the source of the light to ensure that it was not a distress signal. A yellow "special mark" was found floating near the "reef" in the entrance to Plimmerton. This mark was a research buoy that had a yellow flashing light on top of it that flashed the sequence of 5 flashes every 15 seconds. Resources Attendees: Chris Seaton Gary Spence Mark Presling Paul Craven Rod Hall CRV's Used: CRV Trust Porirua Rescue read more
- Tagged as:
- porirua
-41.080726, 174.844515
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Tagging votes
These votes contributed to this item's tagging:
- porirua - Hand tagged by autotagger
- places - Ancestor of tag porirua
- boating - Publisher tag
- sport - Ancestor of publisher tag boating
- emergencyservices - Publisher tag
- kapiti - Publisher tag
- places - Ancestor of publisher tag kapiti
- -41.080726, 174.844515 - Resources own geo tag
- Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand - Porirua tag geocode
