Coastguard

Coastguard Hibiscus has spent the colder seasons training and honing our skills so we can help those in need and bring boaties in distress home....

Things change very quickly on the water, which is why Coastguard Hibiscus is here to help. It’s the perfect time of year to makes sure...

Our crew got an early wake-up call on Tuesday October 2 at 5.46 am to attend an urgent callout on the south side of Tiritiri...

Coastguard Hibiscus attended 60 jobs over the December to February period with 155 people assisted and 566 crew-hours on the two Coastguard rescue vessels. We...

It’s been a busy summer for Coastguard Hibiscus, many sunny and eventful days on the water. Silverdale fire brigade conducted a training exercise that some...

How often do you see those white and orange boats on the water and ask yourself, ‘I wonder what that’s all about?’ Well, here’s an...

With Labour Day approaching, it’s the time of year again to clean out the bait bin, dust off the fishing gear and blow the cobwebs...

Removing “spaghetti” from a propellor is all in a day’s work for Coastguard crew, from left Matt Turner and Raymond Greenfield. Autumn is officially here,...

What did we get up to in the holiday period? For Coastguard Northern Region as a whole, December was the busiest month on record, with...

At about 1.30am on November 14, I awoke to the trilling of my Coastguard pager. I would later learn that Kaikoura had been badly damaged,...