Cape Colville Vessel in trouble
Saturday, 18 August 2012, 10:08 am
Press Release: New Zealand Police
Vessel in trouble
This morning at about 5.45am, a
vessel started taking on water by Cape Colville. Its mayday
call was answered by Maritime Operations. Police and HNZMS
Canterbury were dispatched together with two vessels from
Coastguard. Westpac helicopter was also activated.
At
the location, the naval seasprite acted quickly to winch two
of the five occupants from the sinking vessel onto the HMNZS
Canterbury. Coastguard were able to transfer the other
three onto its vessel before the sinking vessel vanished
completely from the sea surface.
All five are on board the
HMNZS Canterbury undergoing medical assessments whilst being
transported back to Auckland.
Sgt Graham Jex of the Police
Maritime Unit said that the joint inter Agency effort
'absolutely clicked' and was very successful in a situation
which could easily have resulted in more tragic
circumstances.
The harbour master has been advised.
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