A fishing boat is wedged on rocks at Cooks Beach after the boat was driven onto them at high speed at high tide. Photo / Brett Osborne
A fishing boat is wedged on rocks at Cooks Beach after the boat was driven onto them at high speed at high tide. Photo / Brett Osborne
A man is in a critical condition after a boating accident in the Coromandel.
The victim was one of four people in a 6.5m aluminium boat that struck rocks at high speed at Cooks Beach last night, Whitianga deputy harbourmaster Calvin Hicks told Fairfax.
"It looks like the boat hashit the reef at high speed, forcing the boat out of the water," Hicks said.
The boat was left high and dry. Photo / Brett Osborne
Brett Osborne heard helicopters attending the scene in the wake of the accident.
"I heard choppers working until about 3 in the morning," he said.
"I've never seen that down here before . . . they must've been really hammering it to get up on those rocks."
Witnesses assisted in the aftermath of the crash.
"There happened to be an off-duty police officer who was at Cooks Beach and he and a friend went out on a rubber ducky and rescued three people from the boat."
