Coastguard Mana
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Divers stranded in broken down vessel
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Tue, 03/09/2013 - 17:55 - 20:30 Operation Type: SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted: 3 Total Volunteer Hours: 12 A small vessel broke down near Mana Island with 3 people on board.The men had been diving about 1km off Mana Island, north of Porirua, and had been due back at 6pm. At 5pm they realised they had a fuel problem and were unable to start the motor so called emergency services who called out Coastguard Mana. They were able to alert rescuers to their location by text message and flashed a torch to Trust Porirua Rescue when near to show their location. The vessel and it's occupants were safely towed back to land by Coastguard Mana at 8:15pm. Vessel Details Length: 5.00m Resources Attendees: Ben Ryan Chris Darch Lorna_Rolston Steve_Rolston Trevor Farmer CRV's Used: CRV Trust Porirua Rescue
- Accepted from Coastguard Mana news
- Tagged as:
- porirua
-41.085278, 174.810278
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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
- -41.085278, 174.810278 - Resources own geo tag
- Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand - Porirua tag geocode
