Major search for yacht in distress ends with a call to Northland police
19 Feb, 2021 02:56 AM
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Frigate HMNZS Te Kaha searched through Wednesday night to find the yacht Tribe believed to be in distress. Photo / File
Frigate HMNZS Te Kaha searched through Wednesday night to find the yacht Tribe believed to be in distress. Photo / File
Multimedia journalist for the Northern Advocatekarina.cooper@nzme.co.nz
Sailors aboard a yacht feared missing since Wednesday night ended a major search and rescue operation with a call to Northland police asking if they were been looked for.
A search for the yacht Tribe and the two people believed to be on-board was launched by NZ s Rescue Co-ordination Centre NZ (RCCNZ) around 6.30pm on Wednesday after a brief and partial Mayday call was received.
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Yacht found: Search over after mayday call from sinking yacht near Coromandel Peninsula
18 Feb, 2021 04:57 AM
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The HMNZS Te Kaha was helping in the search after a mayday call from what was thought to be a sinking yacht last night. Photo / RNZDF
Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz
The yacht that went missing last night off the east coast of Coromandel Peninsula has been found 150km north near Whangārei.
The yacht, Tribe, has been found in Bream Bay about 7 kilometres south of Whangārei this afternoon, Maritime NZ said. That is about 80 nautical miles [150km] north of where it made its mayday call.