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Learning From the Rena Grounding
Friday, 27 January 2017, 9:08 am | Maritime New Zealand
School students this year can learn from New Zealand’s most significant maritime pollution emergency, the grounding of MV Rena . More >>
Laugh, but out on the water ‘Nobody’s faster than disaster’
Friday, 20 January 2017, 1:02 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Today, Maritime NZ has launched the first of three quirky videos aimed at getting ‘bullet-proof’ young men, who have never had an accident, and reckon they never will, to realize “Nobody’s faster than disaster” and actually plan for the ... More >>
Sea lion wound prompts medevac from Auckland Islands
Friday, 13 January 2017, 10:30 am | Maritime New Zealand
A rescue helicopter is flying 400 km to the Auckland Islands on an urgent mission to medevac a woman injured by a sea lion pup. More >>
Rescue beacon alerts top 450
Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 10:14 am | Maritime New Zealand
A woman climber sustaining severe head injuries on Christmas Day, and a motor boat stuck on a sandbar off Foxton Beach, were among the more than 450 rescue beacon incidents for 2016. More >>
Care needed on the water these holidays
Thursday, 5 January 2017, 12:51 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ is reminding boaties to take care on the water with two fatalities reported in the official holiday period to 6 am yesterday. More >>
‘No excuses’ fines for no lifejackets and speeding start
Thursday, 22 December 2016, 9:19 am | Maritime New Zealand
A trial “no excuses” policy for recreational boaties not carrying or wearing lifejackets and those who speed on the water is getting underway. More >>
French yacht heading for Bluff
Wednesday, 21 December 2016, 8:48 am | Maritime New Zealand
The skipper of a French racing yacht, that collided with a floating object on Sunday afternoon during the Vendee Globe race, is making good progress toward Bluff. More >>
Damaged yacht nears landfall
Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 4:18 pm | Maritime New Zealand
The skipper of a French racing yacht, that collided with a floating object on Sunday afternoon during the Vendee Globe race, is close to making landfall in New Zealand. More >>
Passenger safety paramount - Maritime NZ
Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 11:16 am | Maritime New Zealand
The prosecution of a passenger vessel operator and skipper, in relation to three women injured while on board the vessel, sends a reminder to everyone that the safety of those onboard is paramount, says Maritime NZ. More >>
Big increase in lifejacket sales a good sign for summer
Thursday, 8 December 2016, 12:46 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Nation-wide retailer, Rebel Sport, has doubled its sales of lifejackets in the first week of the month, and Coastguard sold 300 lifejackets in the first weekend of its “Old4New” promotion. More >>
$324,500 after kayak business neglected safety obligations
Monday, 5 December 2016, 5:31 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ says the kayak hire operator sentenced to 200 hours community service and ordered to pay $324,500 over the deaths of two kayakers, on Lake Tekapo in September last year, neglected his safety obligations with tragic consequences. More >>
Coastguard New Zealand's Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade Campaign
Friday, 2 December 2016, 11:14 am | Maritime New Zealand
Coastguard New Zealand's Old4New Lifejacket Upgrade initiative kicks off tomorrow, Saturday 3 December, at 8.00am at the Half Moon Bay boat ramp in Auckland. More >>
Maritime NZ promotes lifejackets with national retailer
Thursday, 1 December 2016, 12:50 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ has launched a national lifejacket promotion “Nobody’s faster than disaster”, with national retailer Rebel Sport, to get more Kiwi boaties into the “best survival gear you can wear on a boat - your lifejacket,” said Director ... More >>
Firm prosecuted after tank explosion
Friday, 25 November 2016, 11:34 am | Maritime New Zealand
A Tasman Bay engineering operator has been convicted, and ordered to undertake 100 hours community work and pay $12,000 reparation to an employee who was seriously injured, after the fuel tank on a tourist launch exploded during a welding repair. ... More >>
All lighthouses and maritime radio functioning well
Friday, 18 November 2016, 3:33 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ has confirmed that all six lighthouses and the maritime radio network on the earthquake affected areas of the North and South Island coasts are functioning normally. More >>
International recognition for RCCNZ teamwork
Friday, 11 November 2016, 9:51 am | Maritime New Zealand
The Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) has been shortlisted for an international maritime rescue award for its teamwork. More >>
Helicopter crash north of Whangarei
Monday, 31 October 2016, 4:08 pm | Maritime New Zealand
The wreckage of a commercial helicopter has been located in Glenbervie Forest, north of Whangarei. More >>
Advertising effectiveness awards for safer boating campaign
Wednesday, 26 October 2016, 2:04 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime NZ’s innovative safer boating campaign has picked up four more New Zealand Effie advertising awards for its “Get it on or it’s no good” lifejacket campaign. More >>
Beacons make for busy Labour Weekend for RCCNZ
Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 11:16 am | Maritime New Zealand
A busy weekend of rescues managed by the Rescue Coordination Centre NZ highlights the benefits of carrying distress beacons. More >>
Mother and sons rescued from Tararuas
Saturday, 22 October 2016, 8:03 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Mother and sons rescued from Tararuas 22 October 2016 A mother and her two sons, aged 10 and 12, have been rescued after spending the night in the open in cold, wet conditions in the Tararua Ranges. The Rescue Coordination Centre NZ (RCCNZ) received ... More >>
