EXHAUSTED SKI RIDER RESCUED
(New Zealand Press Association)
AUCKLAND, Dec. 27.
An exhausted surf-ski rider was picked up four miles off Green Bay by the Whangarei Harbour Board stand-by tug Parahaki this afternoon.
Ivan Markovina, a 19-year-old senior member of the Ruakaka Life-saving Club, from Onerahi, was paddling some distance from the beach when the wind became so
strong that he could not reach the shore. Club members realised his plight but the 500-yard reel was not long enough to reach him. By the time the club’s two reels had been joined the youth was more than 1000 yards from the shore and the reels again became useless. The tug was called by Mr J. Keir, the club secretary. It headed down-wind almost to the exact spot where Mr Markovina was hidden by four-foot waves. Mr Markovina was returned to Whangarei exhausted.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30944, 28 December 1965, Page 10
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