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SAR Callout
January 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We had a short SAR callout on 4 January, where we were stood down just as teams were being deployed. The search was to assist Police with a shoreline search in Seatoun and on the Eastern side of the harbour for a swimmer who got into trouble the night before swimming off Seatoun Beach. At night, the Westpac helo, Lady Liz IV and Coastguard vessels searched for the swimmer without success. In the morning the dive squad was called in to search around Steeple Rock and the swimmer was located just as we were about to deploy teams into the [...]
Palmy Nth SAROp
January 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The SAR Op in Palmy North that we were responding to (for about half an hour – then the guy was located) was for a 63yr old male who went for a walk up the end of Kahuterawa Road (the area above Linton-Palmy Nth). He called police around 5pm yesterday saying he was lost. The missing party was from Levin and not familiar with area. He started walking around 10am the previous day but had slipped down a bank and while climbing out fell back down. He only had day gear with him but cell phone call said no injuries. [...]
SAROP Sinclair
December 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This SAROP on the Wellington south coast was to assist RCC/police with a shoreline search for 2 missing recreational boaters whose boat flipped around 1800 on 30th off Sinclair Head. One of the occupants of the boat managed to swim ashore around 0330 on 31st – he was swept as far as Lyall Bay (off the end of the airport) but managed to swim ashore. The two others from the boat were located in the water around 1000 on 31st about 3kms offshore. The first guy was spotted by a Helipro chopper and the second by Lady Liz IV (they [...]
