CoastguardMana

Training covered the following;

SAP - Stop, Assess, Plan (hazards, plan etc)

In water assistance (risk to crew, victim etc);

Recovery - concious person (size, injuries clothing of victim etc);

Facing away from CRV (CRV drift line, injury risk);

Facing into CRV (life jacket, male/female considerations etc);

Equipment (slings, scoops, stretchers etc);

Body Retrieval (Police notification etc);

Locations (vessel, rocks etc);

Navigation training (plotting latitude and longitude, plotting bearings and distances)

Knots and heaving lines (practical knots and assessments)

All crew where put through "Basic Lines and Knots checklist"
Assessors where Matt, John and Chris.
Practice using the dewatering/fire pump was also done.
Sheets collected by Chris to assess any remedial training needed.

Manouevring exercises under the bridge in strong currents. Then back into marina for more of the basic excercises for the newer group members.

This was a land-based navigation and chartwork session. Items covered were:

Chart

• Mercator projection
• lat/lon
• depth contours
• chart marks for rocks, buoys, cardinal
• compass rose

Compass

• variation / deviation
• plotting a passage
• true / magnetic
• distance
• etc

TPR & Pelorus cleaned inside and out.  IMT  Hut - contents sorted and area cleaned.  Container also tidied.

Crew split into two groups. Group one went over the new launch/recovery procedures where the vessel is left in a 'Hot Launch' ready state rather than checklists being done to get it ready for departure.

The second group were new crew members that went through basic rope techniques, knots, etc.

Regular Sunday morning helm training session to bring up new helmspeople in a specialised role. Training involved a continuation of the exercise on the poles at the end of the pole moorings from last time where the vessel is manoeuvred from pole to pole, swinging from bow to stern and vice-versa attached to lines. This is a good exercise in not only controlling the vessel in a constrained environment but also teamwork and effective communication/coordination. Opposing wind and tide made things a little more challenging today.

TPR to south of Mana Island where Rainbow Warrior was anchored. Anchoring Exercise at Hongoeka Bay.

CRV Pelorus:

Demonstrating: Bar crossing, quartering waves, stemming waves, nav marks, area fam, running waves, headings, lookout, other vessel nav lights.

This was the first "all of crew" training session for the new year. We had a number of new recruits come down for an induction/introduction as well as the regulars that hadn't been out for the earlier session from 1630.

Pauahatanui arm of the harbour

Navigation in channel, underwater hazard observations, depth testing by chartplotter and depth pole,

Reversing into wind, Tow set up, Towing, reducing Yaw on the tow. recocvering the tow.

2 x MOB drills

sharp turns through dan buoy gates, using engine controls to assist turns. safe navigationn abck into base, marina entry set up for entry with tow.

Practising and perfecting the procedure for coming alongside/berthing at the fuel berth. Helmsperson must approach at a suitable angle, allowing for the drift of the wind, use the engines to stop the vessel and pull the stern onto the jetty in one movement without bouncing or rubbing.

start checks, towing and launch procedures

inshore navigation, depth finding, transit points, helm orders, course to steer, angle of turn.

High and low speed manouvering, ferry glides, berthing

CRV Pelorus;

Marina manouvreing, 3 point turns, berthing, reversing, traversing fingers, fuel dock, manuvreing on a line.

MOB, S-turns at moderate speed, kedge anchoring, beach landing, picking up a buoy.\

Boat washed down with salt away

Log book checks to confirm future training needs, Chart work (NZ46, NZ4632) to confirm local visual nav points and operation area.

On shore covered berthing lines, types of ropes carried on CRV Pelorus.Practiced throwing Heaving Line, Throw Bag and Life Ring

CRV Pelorus, Toyota.

Coastline search practise with information back to IMT, search area Plimmerton boating club to Te Rewa Rewa.

Target located and recovered

Pelorus, MOB, 3 point turns, visual nav, chartplotter, lead lights

Harbour manovering - manovering to a mooring buoy.

Crew training night

* Trust Porirua Rescue:  Estimated position navigation, helm control/course to steer, deck set up for tow and required knots, radio checks for strength in the training area. Low speed close quarter manouvreing

*IMT session, radio operator, chart plot for search patterns

Run around with crew positioning in different areas of the boat including helming, nav and radio work. Session cut short as large amounts of fuel could be smelled on 4 different times. Engine fire and abandon ship proceedures were practiced.

Training tonight saw one of our new masters in charge of TPR.  Both TPR & Pelorus went out - Pelorus initially "hid" for TPR to locate then they did some towing practise.  IMT team were kept busy attempting to plot positions on the charts

Second group of crew taken for last of the trainee masters to be put through their paces.  Pelorus again went & "hid" giving only basic info of  location so TPR had to locate them from limited details.  After this exercise, TPR went out over the bar for further master testing while Pelorus went up under the bridges & around Onepoto harbour for familiarisation

Both TPR & Pelorus went to sea tonight - giving the trainee masters further practise time before their practical exam.  

TPR radioed to Base for a position to get the navigator to key into the GPS and then proceed to that position.  They then went into Green Point area  where they went through MOB, fire drill, abandon ship, anchoring & general navigation before returning to base.