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Maritime New Zealand - Latest News [Page 27]
NZ children take to the water with safe boating messages
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 12:40 pm | Maritime New Zealand
New Zealand’s leading boating educator says it’s more important than ever for children and their families to learn about safety on the water. More >>
Exhausted trampers winched to safety
Friday, 22 November 2013, 12:40 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Two trampers, aged 71 and 78, have been winched to safety after becoming exhausted on the Old Ghost Road track near Westport on the West Coast. More >>
Injured woman rescued from glacier after beacon set off
Monday, 4 November 2013, 8:58 am | Maritime New Zealand
Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) says having a personal locator beacon helped saved the life of a woman climber overnight. The woman had been critically injured on a South Island glacier and urgently needed medical attention. More >>
Helicopter rescue - 28 October 2013 - 5.45pm
Tuesday, 29 October 2013, 10:02 am | Maritime New Zealand
A rescue was carried out this afternoon to retrieve the passengers and pilots from an incident involving two helicopters, the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) says. More >>
Don’t miss the boat – wear your lifejacket
Tuesday, 22 October 2013, 1:55 pm | Maritime New Zealand
About one in four New Zealanders owns or uses a boat, but Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) says too many boaties are risking their lives by not taking steps to stay safe on board. More >>
Support for compulsory lifejacket law
Monday, 7 October 2013, 3:10 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) supports a move to make the wearing of lifejackets compulsory for people under 15, and continues to encourage everyone on the water to wear lifejackets at all times. More >>
Jet boat drivers sentenced
Monday, 26 August 2013, 5:44 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Two commercial jet boat drivers were each fined $3000 and ordered to pay $3000 in reparation today in Queenstown District Court, following a collision on the Dart River, near Queenstown, in January 2013. More >>
Ghost Rod wins boat safety video competition
Friday, 23 August 2013, 3:54 pm | Maritime New Zealand
A water-based homage to the classic “Ghost Chips” road safety TV advertisement has won this year’s Bounty Hunter Fishing Tournament video competition, which was sponsored by Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) and PlaceMakers Big Angry Fish . More >>
Charges laid over discharge of oil into the sea
Tuesday, 20 August 2013, 12:16 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) has laid three charges against Sanford Limited after an investigation into alleged illegal dumping of oil into the sea of New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone from the Korean foreign charter fishing vessel Pacinui. More >>
Canadian climber rescued
Monday, 12 August 2013, 3:51 pm | Maritime New Zealand
A solo Canadian climber has been rescued after becoming stuck on the side of a ravine at the edge of the Goldney Glacier on the eastern side of Mt Rolleston, near Arthur’s Pass. More >>
Chatham Islands fisherman convicted
Friday, 9 August 2013, 2:10 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Chatham Islands fisherman Stephen George Page and the company of which he is sole director, Flinders Fisheries Company Ltd, have been convicted of operating the fishing vessel Equinox without an appropriate current maritime document. More >>
Big Angry Fish takes to the water with lifejackets
Friday, 26 July 2013, 12:14 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) is taking a new lead to encourage “gung-ho” fishermen to wear lifejackets by sponsoring the popular fishing show Big Angry Fish . The first of 13 episodes screens on TV3 on Sunday, 28 July, at 5.30pm. More >>
Charges laid following jet boat collision
Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 12:24 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Charges have been laid against two commercial jet boat drivers following a collision on 4 January 2013 on the Dart River, near Queenstown, in which a passenger suffered a broken clavicle and several others suffered bruising. More >>
Search for missing schooner suspended
Saturday, 6 July 2013, 11:13 am | Maritime New Zealand
The search for an American schooner missing en route from New Zealand to Australia has been formally suspended, after 12 days of searching found no sign of the vessel or its crew. More >>
Missing schooner – update 13
Friday, 5 July 2013, 7:31 pm | Maritime New Zealand
The Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) says no more active searching is currently planned for the American schooner Nina, which is missing en route from New Zealand to Australia. More >>
Missing schooner – update 12
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 6:21 pm | Maritime New Zealand
The Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) is continuing to assess all available information in the search for the crew of the American schooner Nina, which is missing en route from New Zealand to Australia. Today’s radar search of more than 97,000 ... More >>
Grave concerns for missing schooner – update 11
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 9:05 am | Maritime New Zealand
An RNZAF P3 Orion will depart this morning to resume searching for the crew of an American schooner missing en route from New Zealand to Australia. More >>
Grave concerns for missing schooner – update 10
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 5:44 pm | Maritime New Zealand
Bad weather has prevented further searching today for the crew of an American schooner missing en route from New Zealand to Australia. The 21m (70ft) Nina , sailing from Opua in the Bay of Islands to Newcastle with seven people on board, has not been ... More >>
Grave concerns for missing schooner – update 9
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 8:51 am | Maritime New Zealand
An RNZAF P3 Orion has returned to New Zealand this evening after completing a seventh day of searching, without sighting a missing American schooner or its liferaft. More >>
Grave concerns for missing schooner – update 8
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 8:40 am | Maritime New Zealand
The Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) has tasked an RNZAF P3 Orion to conduct a search of two areas south of Norfolk Island today, as the search for the crew of an American schooner enters its seventh day. More >>
