Coastguard Mana
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Swimmers caught in tidal stream in channel
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Thu, 09/02/2012 - 16:30 - 16:45 Operation Type: SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted: 2 Total Volunteer Hours: 1 Two swimmers were caught in the tidal flow exiting the channel into Porirua Harbour on an outgoing tide. This pushed them out of the channel entrance towards Goat Point. The swimmers were spotted waving and screaming for assistance and Coastguard Mana was activated by Police to assist. A training crew was already onboard Trust Porirua Rescue in the marina, engines fired up and ready to depart on a training excercise, when the call came through. They were able to depart immediately and were on scene within 3 minutes of the call from Police. Resources Attendees: Chris Darch Gary Spence Mark Presling Peter Feely Rod Hall Trevor Burgess Trevor Farmer CRV's Used: CRV Trust Porirua Rescue read more
- Accepted from Coastguard Mana news
- Tagged as:
- porirua
-41.093001, 174.865029
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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
- -41.093001, 174.865029 - Resources own geo tag
- Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand - Porirua tag geocode
