25^th April, 4.20pm a canoe with 4 people aboard capsizes in Sumner Bay.  A member of the public alerts Police who task Sumner Lifeboat to assist. Hamilton Jet Rescue with 3 volunteer crew aboard responds and plucks three people from the sea.  They are taken to the Christchurch Yacht Club where an ambulance is waiting to take them to hospital as they were suffering from hypothermia.  The fourth person had swum to shore.

Pub Charity Canterbury Rescue will be officially launched on Saturday 24^th April at the Naval Point Slipway, Lyttelton.  Local Coastguard volunteers have worked hard to raise the funds to purchase the $0.5m AMF designed and build 9.5m rescue vessel.  Delivered in late 2009 the Coastguard Canterbury volunteers have undertaking a familiarisation and training programme aboard the vessel, the Skippers have been re assessed and had their Coastguard COC certificates reissued for Pub Charity Canterbury Rescue. 

The first ‘rescue’ for Pub Charity Canterbury Rescue was in late January when while on training in Lyttelton Harbour they assisted a bride to reach Quail Island when the boat delivering her to her wedding broke down.