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The one yachtsman on board was able to use a personal locator beacon to alert the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand.
The PLB was registered with up to date details, which helped police confirm details about the walking party.
A police spokesperson said they received a report that a personal locator beacon had been activated,
The Coast Guard was alerted to the boat after it received an emergency alert from a 406MHz Personal Locator Beacon.
A Coast Guard aircrew rescued a man from a disabled vessel 150 miles west of Sitka within 15 minutes of receiving the alert from the EPIRB.
A sailor shares a unique description of the experience of capsizing a previous boat and being rescued from the North Sea.
An Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon, or EPIRB, alerted the Coast Guard of the emergency on Monday morning.
There was no phone signal, but she was discovered by another walker who had a distress beacon that was linked by satellite.
The overnight tramp turned into a two night ordeal, ending when he was winched into the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter.
