50 years of sea rescues

Riverton Coastguard senior skipper Noel Anderson still remembers how he felt on his first rescue at the sea.

He was a teenager and went with his father, a Riverton commercial fisher, to a callout at Foveaux Strait where two locals capsized a vessel.

‘‘We pulled two people, two locals, out of the water."

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