CoastguardMana Saving Lives at Sea



Kapiti Observer newspaper article

09 Mar 2009
Posted by Mark Presling
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Mana Coastguard works closely with the Mana Cruising Club, which provides a training venue, a berth for the Waveney rescue boat and the portacom shed the unit uses as an operational base.Mana Coastguard works closely with the Mana Cruising Club, which provides a training venue, a berth for the Waveney rescue boat and the portacom shed the unit uses as an operational base.

Comments attributed to Mana Coastguard master Grant Porter were unfortunate and not the view of the Royal New Zealand Coastguard, nor the Mana unit.

In an article published 5th March 2009 in the Kapiti Observer, Mr Porter appears to describe local recreational launch owners as uncooperative and ungrateful.

"That's just not the case" says Mana Coastguard President Laurie Watkins.

Vice-President and rescue boat skipper, Chris Reid, explains; "In the great majority of cases, distressed boaties are VERY pleased to see us and eager to do all they can to assist in their own rescue.  Not only that, but in two recent rescues both the rescued parties have visited the base afterwards and made a sizeable donation.  You can't complain about that level of gratitude".

The Royal New Zealand Coastguard is a charitable organisation relying on membership fees, fundraising, donations and Lotteries Grants Board funding to cover expenses of nearly $10 million per annum.

For more information:

Chris Reid
Coastguard Mana
021 131 2788

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