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Source: Maritime New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Couple safely rescued off Ball Pass Aoraki/Mt Cook today
As of 1.04pm, the couple and all members of the DOC Search and Rescue Alpine Rescue team had safely returned by helicopter to Bull Hutt Road and were then transferred by road to the Aoraki Mt Cook Alpine Rescue base.
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Source: Maritime New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Couple awaiting rescue off Ball Pass Aoraki/Mt Cook today
A couple in their 60s are currently awaiting rescue off Ball Pass Aoraki/Mt Cook after bad weather and severe exhaustion meant they could not get themselves to safety, requiring the assistance of the Rescue Coordination Centre NZ (RCCNZ) and staff from The Department of Conservation (DOC) alpine rescue team.
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Source: Maritime New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: No Excuses in Kaikoura for speeding boaties, no lifejackets
Kaikoura boaties will have more than whales to look out for this Thursday and Friday. Staff from Environment Canterbury and Maritime NZ will be on NZ Police launch Lady Elizabeth IV off the Kaikoura coast checking boaties lifejacket wearing and safe speed.
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Source: Maritime New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Four recreational boating fatalities so far this year – how not to become a statistic
Amongst the sad drowning statistics released at the weekend, there is some good news in that recreational boating fatalities are well down on last years figures: So far this year four people have died in boating accidents and Maritime NZ has simple advice for boaties to help keep that number down.
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Source: Maritime New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Captain’s prosecution a strong reminder: there is no tolerance for breaking the alcohol limit
Maritime NZ’s Regional Manager Central, Michael-Paul Abbott, said today’s (December 13) sentencing of a cargo ship’s master is a strong reminder and warning to seafarers: “if you are over the alcohol limit, you will be prosecuted. Safety is paramount”.
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Source: Maritime New Zealand – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Passenger’s back broken on high speed tourist vessel
Seafort Holdings Limited and its sole director and shareholder, Richard John Prentice, have been ordered to pay fines and reparations totalling more than $93,000 after a 60-year-old passenger, Raewyn Russell, had her back broken when the company’s high speed passenger vessel, Mack Attack, hit a large wave.
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