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SAVING LIVES AT SEA

For the latest Search & Rescue reports from our Coastguard Units go to UNITS and pick your local unit page.   Or follow us on Twitter or Facebook to see up-to-date information on rescues and our volunteers activities.

 

 

 

 

 

308 volunteers save lives at sea and on lakes around the Southen Region.  Coastguard’s brave volunteers don’t ask a cent for their lifesaving work – they don’t do it to be rewarded.  They do however need support to ensure they have the best possible training and the right equipment, to achieve their mission safely.

 

Only 15% of our funding comes from government so the support of the public is vital. 

 

This year across New Zealand Coastguard volunteers have saved 50 people.  These are people who would have perished at sea if our volunteers weren’t there to save them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coastguards’ Community Promise is: Saving lives at sea

 

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NEWS

Trio rescued from Lake Wanaka

Three men rescued from a broken down, waterlogged boat in strong winds on Lake Wanaka on 25th January are planing on saying a special thank you to Coastguard Wanaka Lakes.   Jared Clarke who is now going to make it to his engagement party, along with his future brother-in-law and grooms-man John Totty, and his best man [...]

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