CoastguardMana

Saving Lives at Sea



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Jan 2012
Date Title Teaser Turnout Total Volunteer Hours
Sat, 28/01/2012 Green watch training day

Pre brief completed, safety, helm, nav, deck roles assigned, check sheets completed

Training area, tea gardens, Bar, Mana DOC mooring

 Drills completed, manouvreing, Engine Fire, Flooding, MOB, Tow set up, mooring pick up/drop off.

 

Jan Allen, on helm for MOB, mooring drop off, tow set up

Pere Feely, return over bar, berthing TPR

5 17.5
Thu, 26/01/2012 Day crew training

Heavy weather training out near Mana Island in 30kt NW winds and large seas.

4 8
Dec 2011
Date Title Teaser Turnout Total Volunteer Hours
Thu, 08/12/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

Bumps and grinds in marina , test run vessel after dock down.

5 10
Wed, 07/12/2011 Practical use of personal floatation devices (PFD) and Liferafts

We booked the Porirua pool for a practical session with the crew, use and limitations of life jackets and use of the liferaft.



  • Solid life jackets and buoyancy aids (buoyancy aids are just that) the life jacket keeps you stable in the water

  • Use of the HELP, huddle and crocodile survival support systems

  • Deploying, attaching, entering and crew positions within a liferaft.

13 crew pased the module and are ready for adverse events at sea.


 


 

16 32
Thu, 01/12/2011 Tuesday Training

Hazard Survey of TPR and Pelorus.


Walk through assesment in compliance with SSMS

10 20
Thu, 01/12/2011 Day Crew Training

While the main rescue vessel, Porirua Rescue, is out of the water for maintenance the crew went through the launch procedures and maintenance checks for CRV Pelorus.

Once in the water we went to do familiarisation training in Porirua Harbour before being called in by the Wellington Harbour Master to assist with disconnecting two yachts that had become entangled on their swing moorings.

6 12
Nov 2011
Date Title Teaser Turnout Total Volunteer Hours
Thu, 17/11/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

Bar crossing exercise,Heavy weather MOB pick up,Heavey weather handling practice

MOB/ Caroline / Chris/Rod/John/

6 18
Thu, 10/11/2011 Thursday Day Crew

 


Tested Sea Drogue in rough conditions in the cook straight.


3 man overboard drills. 1 MOB was a double victim recovery.


Rough Weather handling.

7 21
Tue, 08/11/2011 Tuesday night training

TPR went out on the water and was directed by a team at the base to navigate to various waypoints (via a safe route) to test/train for the following things:



  • radio communications

  • plotting waypoints on the chart

  • calculating magnetic bearings from one waypoint to the next

  • calculating range and time to travel

  • relaying waypoints, bearings, distances and time between the base and the vessel to navigate the to it's intended search area

  • boat handling in moderate seas
13 26
Thu, 03/11/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

Fire pump testing on board TPR.

Hazard Safety Walk through on TPR.

4 8
Oct 2011
Date Title Teaser Turnout Total Volunteer Hours
Tue, 25/10/2011 SAR Module Search Techniques

Tutor: Paul Craven


Search and Rescue, search techniques.


(time/distance/speed)(Track Spacing)(Area of probability)(Probability of Detection)


 


Several surf lifeaving volunteers joined in for the nights training sessionsession


 

17 34
Sat, 22/10/2011 Crew Resource Management (CRM) Training

Theory session on CRM done at the PCC Emergency Management Office before heading onto the water in the afternoon.


Practical portion of the CRM training. 4 trainee masters, plus 1 senior master, were put through excercises for 3.5hrs on the water.

5 40
Thu, 20/10/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

Anchor training in Green Bay

Pilotage and chart navigation Plimerton area.

5 12.5
Tue, 18/10/2011 Tuesday night training

Red, Green and Purple watch doing basic navigation training/excercises with some operational crew as a land-based excercise.

TPR was taken out to do navigational training around to Titahi Bay and around the marina.

Hazard checks performed and logged.

Pelorus, trailer and 4WD checklists worked through and tested.

17 34
Sun, 16/10/2011 Sunday helm training

Close quarter and MOB helm work.

3 6
Thu, 13/10/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

Land Based Training , SSMS checks.

5 10
Tue, 11/10/2011 Base Training, Navigation. Basic knots, new crew introduction

No Masters tonight, crew active with:


Red, Blue, Purple Watch, Op Crew: Introduction to Navigation (precursor to boatmaster navigation sessions)


Green Watch: updating Base Hazard register, testing the new basic knots module with Trevor B


Mark P spent time with prospective crewman Darian, going over TPR and Coastguard.


Peter T working on basic GPS use module for TPR

15 30
Thu, 06/10/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

Land Based Training 2 hr

5 12.5
Sun, 02/10/2011 Masters training

Tow pickups from TPR to Pelorus. Manuevring in marina for both TPR and Pelorus.

6 12
Sep 2011
Date Title Teaser Turnout Total Volunteer Hours
Tue, 27/09/2011 Hazard Management, Rope handling

TPR:  Mark Presling:  Hazard Management Processes, Fire, Abandon Ship


Pelorus: Carolyn Jameson: Hazard Management, Fire, Refueling


Land crew: Matt Morris-Jenkins: Throw bags, Heaving lines, lines and knots.


 

19 47.5
Sun, 25/09/2011 Masters training session

MOB, station keeping, close quarter manouvreing in the marina

4 10
Tue, 20/09/2011 SAR On Scene Command

SAR module, On Scene Command.  one of the required modules for operational crew to complete

20 40
Sun, 18/09/2011 Masters training session

Rafting and boat movement:   28' launch taken from the marina to a mooring in Ivey Bay.


Training involved: Reconaisance, planning, manouering, rafting lines, channel markers, eddy control, speed and manouvreability, mooring pickup, securing vessel, removing lines, clearing a vessel.  returned to the marina for a session on long tow set up.  practised the long tow set up using a line off of the breastworks.

7 21
Thu, 15/09/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

Heavy Weather vessel handling on bar and north of Mana Island.

MOB recovery on bar , helmsmen G Spence/T Burgess/C Darch

Life sling bouy pick up in bar area.

Simulated vessel sinking , North of Mana Island

Shore line search Goat point area

7 14
Tue, 13/09/2011 Heavy Weather handling......theory module

New module on handling coastguard vessels in heavy weather, boat design, sea conditions, trim and stability factors, bar crossings

18 45
Sun, 11/09/2011 masters training

masters group continued close quarter handling inside marina

4 8
Sat, 10/09/2011 Waka'ame Race

Waka'ama race series, harbour and Mana bay area.

4 12
Aug 2011
Date Title Teaser Turnout Total Volunteer Hours
Sat, 27/08/2011 Saturday helm practice

Heavy weather handling, holding station and MOB

6 9
Thu, 25/08/2011 Thursday day crew training

Exercise " Green Bay Tow"


Recover Pelorus from anchor and tow back to Mana Marina.


Exercise involved, recovery of Pelorus from Green Bay, long tow back to Mana channel


shorten tow, bring Pelorus alongside, hip up vessels in channel, bring Pelorus into Mana Marina


alongside main harbour wall.


 

8 28
Tue, 23/08/2011 Tuesday night training

Practised towing with TPR as towed and towing vessel.  Practised helm with all crew, identification of land marks at night.

5 10
Tue, 23/08/2011 Tuesday night training

training tonight involved practicing tow pick ups between CRV Porirua Rescue and CRV Pelorus Rescue. 

Shore crew carried out navigation exercises 

9 18
Sat, 20/08/2011 Inspect vessel on pole moorings

Transported owner to sunken tri on pole mooring with the intention of pumping out.  Vessel to far under water to have enough freeboard to attempt pumping.  Returned to base, contacted commercial salvage company and left with owner and insurance company.  Owner will work with Trevor Farmer to make a donation.

2 5
Thu, 18/08/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

 Radio checks, around Mana Island, and south of Green Bay .

Drop test drift  buoy , set at tidal diamond A , leave for 35 mins ,

continue radio checks, return to location and carry out expanding box search

Heavy weather training .

6 18
Thu, 11/08/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

Night time MOB ex in Mana Bay

Drift survey of marker buoy at tidal dimond "A" Mana Bay.

Area familarization , Green Bay and T Gardens.

Role change between crew , helm, nav,2 i/c positions.

5 15
Thu, 04/08/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

 Area familirazation of Pukerua Bay area , noteing local inshore hazards.

MOB practice helm for all crew and master x two.

trial of new danbouy marker, visability range test

4 12
Tue, 02/08/2011 Tuesday night training

Coms and Navigation.  Box Search

TPR transit to search datum west of Mana Island.  On arrival reporting sea conditions.  Commence box search

IMT: running chart plot, search pattern, radio coms.

Briefing given to master using GSMEAC

13 32.5
Jul 2011
Date Title Teaser Turnout Total Volunteer Hours
Thu, 28/07/2011 Navigation & Deckwork Training

Navigation and area familiarisation for prospective navigator, with practical exercises in on board instrumentation.  Training for trainee deck boss, with task allocation to crew, anchoring practice, and management of lookouts.


Anchored in quarry area; navigated at night close to NE side of mana; proceeded to safe water mark off bar and followed leads into harbour.


 

6 12.6
Thu, 21/07/2011 Thursday Day Crew Training

Onshore :  Navigation , chart plotter  functions using TPR Simrad system

On Water :  Pelorus marina movements , basic manovering around marina.

4 10
Tue, 19/07/2011 Tuesday Night Training

Navigation exercise involving Shore based IMT and vessel CRV Pelorus .

Shore Based Team , plot and work out the following , Passage plan, route of

vessel from Green Bay to Mana base via Mana Island ,Tea gardens, Plimerton.

to include, distance run,time,and CTS information, radio information to vessel,run radio log of events.

10 30
Thu, 14/07/2011 Day Crew Training

 Area Mana Bay and south of Mana Island.

Master :Rod Hall

Exercise :  M.O.B. in moderate sea conditions / deploy marker buoy at location

41.06.3 S - 174.47.9 E ,  Carry out simulated search for vessel in area 41.08.5S

174.47.0 E .  Return to marker buoy area, carry out a night time search for target

using , box , shore line and creeping line search methods.

8 32
Thu, 07/07/2011 Day Crew Training

Day crew training :  Master Rod Hall

Vessel TPR

Bar crossing training in heavy weather, helmsman practice technique , on the inner edges

of the bar.

5 10
Tue, 05/07/2011 Land (IMT) and sea based training

Porirua Rescue:  Crew travelled to various pointsd down to green point and Open bay, acroos the the southern mooring at Mana and then back to base.  Observations, Position Keeping, Helm.  Roger Waite as acting master with Paul Craven in command.


Incident Management Team:  Radio procedure, chart plotting.


CRV Pelorus:  (land) Anchoring, Towing set up.


 

15 45
Tue, 05/07/2011 Tuesday Night Ngatitoa cubs

Visit from Tuesday night Ngatitoa cubs, boat safety, rescues, coastguard Mana

4 4
Mon, 04/07/2011 Ngatitoa Cubs visit

Visit from Monday night Ngatitoa cubs, boat safety, rescues, coastguard Mana

1 1
Sun, 03/07/2011 Sunday new crew training

Introduction to practical man over board exercises and basic helming practice. each crew member rotated through helm, deck crew and nav positions. Also some local area familarisation work, holding station demonstration and use of radar. 

6 12
Jun 2011
Date Title Teaser Turnout Total Volunteer Hours
Thu, 30/06/2011 Thursday

Area Familiarization of upper habour Porirua side at low water. 

Boat handling at brestworks Mana marina

5 10
Tue, 28/06/2011 Tuesday night training

Tonights training related to creating safety plans, communication plans and trip reports. IMT team were tasked to review weather conditions and come up with a set of possible hazards. They were then to brief the crew of porirua rescue, set up a communications plan and rescue plan should Porirua rescue get into trouble.

Porirua rescue then went to sea to practically run through the safety plans developed, with the IMT monitoring 

14 28
Thu, 23/06/2011 Day Crew Training

Practice connecting and releasing tow lines in Marina under tension.

6 18
Tue, 21/06/2011 Tuesday Night training

Incident management training - involved the planning involved before the rescue vessel heads out to an incident. Considerations around weather, tides etc and planning to ensure the safety and communications for the vessel.


remander of crew carried out inspection of safety equipment on vessel, correct use, storage etc

13 26
Sun, 19/06/2011 Plimmerton Kindy mid-winter swim and training day

Crews assembled at 0830 for a briefing. 105 persons went for the swim.

TPR

Master: Rod H
Crew: Roger W, Chris D, Matt A, C arolyn, Jann A, Gary S.

TPR inshore recon, radio control, on scene command and bar crossing.

Pelorus

Master: Trevor F
Crew: Grant C, Alan F, John B

Pelorus set up for inshore work, beach approach, person recovery, standing off.  At end of swim, bar crossing practice with helm changes.

4x4

Ben R, Jan A, Peter F.  Visible prescence on shore, shore side comms.

14 56
Thu, 16/06/2011 Area Familiarisation - Night

Night time area familarisation and anchor training.  Plimmerton Booating Club, Green Point, Mana drop offf points, and Mana Island circuit.

6 18
Tue, 14/06/2011 Tuesday Night Training

Vessel CRV Pelorus, in water training , boat manovering in Mana Marina, three point turns, mooring alongside, fuel berth.


 

7 14


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