Orewa Volunteer Lifeguards Rescue Kayaker
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 9:51 am
Press Release: Surf Lifesaving Northern
Orewa Volunteer Lifeguards Rescue
Kayaker

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Orewa Surf Life Saving
Club volunteer lifeguards involved in kayak rescue (L to R)
Faron Turner, Sarah Jenkinson and Shane
Burke.
Media Advisory
January 28,
2008
Orewa Volunteer Lifeguards Rescue
Kayaker
At 1630 this afternoon (January 28, 2008)
three volunteer lifeguards from Orewa Surf Life Saving Club
rescued a male kayaker that had tipped out from his kayak at
1130 this morning.
The 20-year-old kayaker had been
fishing when his kayak was caught by a gust of wind and he
was tipped out. He lost his kayak and had been drifting in
the sea for five hours.
The kayaker was trying to swim
to shore but was still 2.5km east of Orewa Surf Life Saving
Club when he was spotted by lifeguards.
Lifeguards
launched an IRB and rescued the exhausted and relieved
kayaker.
Orewa Surf Life Saving Patrol Captain, Faron
Turner, says the lifeguards saw splashing far out on the
horizon and on checking with binoculars they could just make
out a head bobbing in the sea.
“The kayaker is a lucky
fellow. We brought him back to shore and although he was
exhausted he was in good spirits. The fact he was wearing a
lifejacket was his saving
grace.”
ENDS
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