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Banaban (Kiribat)i fishermen rescued after four weeks lost at sea

Updated 3 hours 16 minutes ago

Kiribati fishermen adrift for almost four weeks

Photo: Eiirito Tataua, aged 40, and Teikauea Tegiaa, 20, were rescued by a US ship passing though the area (Supplied: Pacific…

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Added by Stacey King on May 8, 2013 at 10:56am — No Comments

Ocean search team confident of finding missing Kiribati children

Updated May 9, 2011 16:54:42

The search team looking for a group of six children missing in their outrigger canoe off Kiribati say they're still quietly confident of finding them.

The children are thought to have drifted out of a lagoon while gathering palms for roof thatching four days ago.

But the NZ Rescue Coordination Centre says weather conditions are favourable and such missions…

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Added by Stacey King on May 9, 2011 at 7:38pm — No Comments

Report into last July’s boating accident in Kiribati due out soon

RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL Posted at 17:30 on 07 February, 2010 UTC

A report into the loss of more than thirty lives from a boating accident in Kiribati last July is due out soon.

A double-hulled canoe carrying 55 passengers from the capital of Kiribati to the outer island of Maiana-- 60 kilometers to the south -- capsized…

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Added by Stacey King on February 11, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Boat found off Kiribati after 16 days

Auckland Talk Radio NZ 23/01/2010 17:36:01

The Air Force has located a boat that had been missing in the Pacific Ocean for 16 days.

An Orion found the boat in the seas off Tarawa, an island of the Kiribati group. Three teenagers, three females and one male, were all well but drifting in their vessel after the outboard motor stopped because of mechanical problems.

Wing Commander Nick Olney says New Zealand got a search and rescue… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 23, 2010 at 4:17pm — No Comments

The Pacific's other ferry disaster

Stuff.co.nz By REBECCA TODD - The Press Last updated 05:00 02/01/10

SURVIVOR: Teibi Tearikua, 19, survived by swimming six hours to shore after a ferry capsized in Kiribati in July. The rescue effort was delayed and chaotic.

A decision to swim rather than cling to a capsized ferry was probably the difference between… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 2, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

3 men from Tapiteuea survive 24-day sea ordeal - arrive in Solomons

SOLOMON STAR

Monday, 05 January 2009

THREE men from Kiribati who drifted without food and water for 24 days at sea arrived safely in Honiara yesterday after a fishing vessel rescued them.

They are Turii Akau, 47, Tentoa Auatabu, 62, and Pastor Kakai Berekeman 29. Speaking through a translator, Pr Berekeman said on 5… Continue

Added by Stacey King on January 21, 2009 at 7:00am — 1 Comment