Coastguard Mana
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Report of drifting boat in heavy seas
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Tue, 08/02/2011 - 21:00 - Wed, 09/02/2011 - 12:30 Operation Type: SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted: 0 Police received a report of a boat seen drifting north from the Plimmerton area around Te Rewarewa Point (known locally as Tea Gardens) towards Pukerua Bay in heavy seas. The witness spotted the vessel from the top of the hill at Whiteraia Park and believed that it was drifting, possibly broken down. Coastguard Mana crew members were already in the area for their regular training night and responded in the rescue vessel Trust Porirua Rescue to search for the boat. By this stage night had set in, light was minimal and seas were very rough. Vessel Details Length: 5.00m Resources Attendees: Mark Presling Paul Craven Peter Tse Rachel Russell Rod Hall tfarmer Trevor Burgess CRV's Used: CRV Trust Porirua Rescue read more
- Tagged as:
- porirua
Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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
- Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand - Porirua tag geocode
