An ill crew member has been winched off a fishing vessel off the coast of Westport. The Nelson Marlborough Rescue helicopter lowered an intensive care paramedic onto the Don Wong this afternoon ...

The Rescue Coordination Centre NZ (RCCNZ) received a distress ... Trevor James said the man was a Westport commercial fisherman, who was fishing for albacore tuna. "He was plucked out of a life ...