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Kōrero: Search and rescue

Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa

Mai i te whārangi 1 - New Zealand search and rescue organisations

Police search for Wendy Mayes, 1961

Police search for Wendy Mayes, 1961

Man in a tie

The Rose Noelle inquiry

A map of the Antarctic and Pacific Oceans, from the equator in the north to Antarctica in the south

New Zealand’s search and rescue region (1 o 3)

Men standing and sitting on a snowy slope with wreckage around them

Erebus recovery operation (2 o 3)

A man standing on a beach, surrounded by a boat and clothes, waving to someone high above him.

Marooned on a reef (3 o 3)

A person in safety gear spraypainting words and numbers on a wall surrounded by building wreckage.

Training exercise

People in emergency uniforms gathered on the remains of a crushed building.

Urban search and rescue

A city street filled with rubble with a dog handler in safety equipment and dog on a lead.

'Cleared by dogs'

Mai i te whārangi 2 - Who needs search and rescue?

People in orange safety gear and helmets huddle around a patient in the snow

A mountain rescue

A man in a woolly hat stands on front of a couple and their child, and a helicopter.

Newspaper headlines about rescue operations

Search and rescue reports

Mai i te whārangi 3 - History

Long rowing boat pulled up on rocks surrounded by five men wearing life jackets.

An early lifeboat

Three men and one woman wearing tramping gear standing on a river bed

Missing trampers

A large group of people in wet weather clothing set off up a muddy road with a truck behind them.

Searching for a missing aircraft

A large group of people with tramping packs walk in a river, some carrying a stretcher

Carrying out Bill Bridge

Four men sit in front of computers with large maps displayed behind them

Rescue Coordination Centre

Mai i te whārangi 4 - Volunteers

A large group of people in tramping clothing walk on a steep hill in fog.

Volunteers at work

A large group of people, wearing helmets and overalls, clustered in a muddy cave.

Cave search and rescue

An orange Coastguard boat with a blue boat labelled NZAS rescue anchored near land.

The Kotuku tragedy

An Australian cattle dog sits in the back of a ute with a man covered in mud.

Search dog and handler

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

Coastguard Air Patrol spotter plane

A woman talking into a radio, surrounded by electronic equipment and paper notes hanging on the wall.

Mai i te whārangi 5 - Rescue equipment and techniques

Two people suspended on wires high above a churning sea and rocks

Rescuing the crew of the Wiltshire

Five men, one in a police uniform, holding a box.

Wellington’s first airborne life raft

A flying helicopter, with a man standing on its landing gear, and another balanced on a stretcher hanging below.

Two men seated in the bush in front of a radio and wires.

Radio communications (1 o 2)

Men crouching around a radio, one listening to a radio transmitter.

Radio equipment, 1989 (2 o 2)

Man holding a yellow personal locator beacon.

Emergency beacon

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārangi:

Nancy Swarbrick and Dan Clearwater, 'Ngā whakaahua, ngā rauemi katoa', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/search-and-rescue/media (accessed 25 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick and Dan Clearwater, i tāngia i te 24 Sep 2007, reviewed & revised 27 Jul 2023 me te āwhina o Dan Clearwater