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Three search and rescue teams were dispatched and used a personal locator beacon activated by the group to find them.
The family are now speaking out about the ordeal to remind others not to leave the shore without an EPIRB, the life-saving device.
Unable to make contact with his Satphone, he activated his EPIRB so that the SAR chain would be aware of his position and situation.
A Coast Guard official said it was the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) that helped crews locate the stranded boaters.
Three people were airlifted to hospital as lifeboat crews responded to a distress signal from an emergency locator beacon.
Volunteers from several squadrons met up to conduct drone and emergency beacon location training to help search and rescue efforts.
An emergency response from multiple agencies ensured he was rescued swiftly having activated his personal locator beacon (PLB).
A spokesperson for the RCCNZ said they received an EPIRB alert from a yacht 60 nautical miles east-south-east of Hastings.
The changes will ensure better responses when distress beacons are activated anywhere on land, sea or air in NZ's search and rescue region.
