Hawkes Bay Coastguard

About Coastguard Hawke's Bay

Coastguard Hawke's Bay was established to look out for the safety of every person in the Hawke's Bay region. No one sets out for the day, expecting to call on us. Every year though, many are glad we were there when needed.

To provide this service, our current resources include:

A 11.5 metre AMF rigid hull inflatable with twin Cummins 480 horsepower driving two Hamilton Jet units, which can push the vessel and crew of 6 along in reasonable conditions at 35 knots (from the breakwater to Cape Kidnappers in about 25 minutes)
6 Certified Rescue Vessel skippers
25 Rescue vessel crew members including trainees
4 Base crew members
An incident mangement team
A radio watch service with 17 trained radio operators
We have a management committee of 15 people providing governance and management to the organisation

How does it all work when it goes wrong out at sea…

Last year Coastguard Hawke's Bay attended:

17 Police 111 emergency call outs
Included 0 fatalities and 10 rescued from the sea
24 callouts to help vessels which had broken down or needed assistance
12 community activity patrols eg powerboat races
2 oil spill exercises and 50 crew training exercises
Our radio crew logged over 4,000 trip reports

You may be very surprised to learn that Coastguard is not Government funded. We are a member organisation totally dependent upon community support to fund our operations. This revenue comes from membership subscriptions, donations, grants, sponsorships and other fund-raising activities.

If you would like more information about becoming a member or would like to know how to sponsor Coastguard Hawke's Bay click here for more information.

Coastguard Hawke's Bay is a division of the Coastguard Eastern Region. If you would like to contact the Eastern region, click here for their website.

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