Facilities
The circular centre building centre houses a marine communications centre, operational 24/7/365 and fields over 100,000 calls per year, from trip reports to emergency calls (dealing with around 1,600 actual incidents a year). These calls are mainly via VHF marine radio or cell phone. The radio room as well as the emergency craft of the Coastguard are largely manned by volunteers.
A heliport is also located directly next to the centre, with a hangar housing the Westpac Rescue Helicopter. Directly attached to the north of the centre is a small artificial harbour sheltering the craft of the rescue, police, harbourmaster and customs services. Several meeting rooms for events and functions are also available, and often cater for education services such as water safety.
Read more about this topic: Auckland Marine Rescue Centre
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