New Zealand SAR Statistics  

 

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2006/07
2005/06
2004/05
2003/04
2002/03
2001/02
Class 1 Operations n/a n/a n/a n/a 321 325
Class 2 Operations 1437 1351 1493 1284 759 795
Class 3 Operations 1218 1365 1099 849 872 607
Total SAR Incidents 2225 2284 2592 2133 1952 1727
Lives Lost 85 66 107 83 111 102
Persons Assisted 2662 2964+RCCNZ 3500+RCCNZ 6069 6770 6458
Beacon Activations 695 768 621 821 680 504

These statistics are drawn from Police, Coastguard, RCCNZ and LandSAR statistics

Note: Class 1 ceased to exist after the 02/03 recording year

LandSAR (Due to database issues, some figures are unavailable)

  2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
NZ Police LandSAR Op 599 703 886 670 582 524 545  
Ops involving LandSAR 224       365 372 397 313
Op Hours 16924     14047 19556 15631 30759 19061
LandSAR personnel Involved 1824       3080 2885 3400 2283

RCCNZ

RCCNZ Effort   04/05 05/06 06/07
Aviation    275 274 294
Land    69 89 79
Marine    394 570 415
Unknown    346 432 430
Total RCCNZ   1084 1365 1218
Distress Beacons        
Real   48 77 56
False   189 192 163
Undetermined   384 499 476
Totals   621 768 695

 
Beacons 04/05 05/06 06/07
406 Real 3 8 19
406 False 55 63 49
406 Undetermined 30 43 61
406 MHz 88 114 129
121.5 /243 Real 42 69 37
121.5/243 False 134 129 114
121.5/243 Undetermined 354 456 415
121.5/243 MHz 530 654 566

 
Beacons 04/05 05/06 06/07
121.5/243 MHz 530 654 566
406 MHz 88 114 129

 

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