Student airlifted out of Hopkins Valley in Canterbury after suffering medical event on school tramping trip
2 Apr, 2021 09:40 AM
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A school student had to be airlifted out of Lake Ohau in Canterbury s Mackenzie Basin after medical event. Photo / Sarah Ivey
A school student had to be airlifted out of Lake Ohau in Canterbury s Mackenzie Basin after medical event. Photo / Sarah Ivey
NZ Herald
A year 13 school student has been airlifted by rescue helicopter out of the Hopkins Valley in Canterbury after he suffered a medical event during a four day class hiking trip.
The male student was tonight airlifted from a tramping hut in Ruataniwha Conservation Park in the Mackenzie Basin after a personal locator beacon was activated at 7.30pm by a group of 30 students and four staff.
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.
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