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Kōrero: Search and rescue

Coastguard Air Patrol spotter plane

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A small plane labelled ‘Coastguard’ flies above a rescue boat and an overturned boat in the sea

A Coastguard Air Patrol plane flies over the hull of a vessel that sank off Port Jackson, at the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula, in September 2006. The skipper was able to radio for help, and two coastguard vessels and eight private boats headed to the area. A rescue helicopter found the man clinging to the hull of the boat and flew him to safety. His Border collie dog, given up for dead, was found alive in wreckage.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 15 September 2006

by Dean Purcell

Permission of the New Zealand Herald must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick rāua ko Dan Clearwater, Search and rescue – Volunteers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/13216/coastguard-air-patrol-spotter-plane (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick rāua ko Dan Clearwater, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, reviewed and revised 27 July 2023 me te āwhina o Dan Clearwater.