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Boating after Dark
For new, or even experienced boaties, navigating at night can seem like a daunting experience. When the sun sets and darkness creeps in, it can be nerve-wracking not being able to see all your surroundings. But boating at night doesn’t have to be a formidable experience.... > Read more
Navigating safely : Understanding your chart plotter
Navigating Safely: Understanding your chart plotter Chart plotters, mobile phone apps, and open source software programmes are becoming increasingly popular as the primary form of position fixing on many recreational vessels. It’s easy to... > Read more
Updated information of VHF Callsigns
Updated information of VHF Callsigns 7 December 2017 As from 7th December 2017 Coastguard Boating Education has introduced a charge for the change of ‘ownership’ of a VHF callsign. This change of ownership (rights as a call sign holder) is... > Read more
UPDATED MARINE MEDIC COURSES
Coastguard Boating Education (CBE) has revised, updated and introduced new offerings into their suite of Marine Medic courses. In addition to the existing two day Coastal Medic qualification, they have introduced a one day refresher course for current certificate... > Read more
Southlanders need to fix bad water safety habits - Rob Hewitt
Rob Hewitt, who survived 72 hours adrift at sea off the Kapiti Coast in 2006, discusses his experiences in Southland teaching water and boat safety skills to students from Aurora College, and the growing need for training of this kind. The article can be found here:... > Read more
Day Skipper Online is a Triple Award Winner
Optimism wins triple business awards crown New Zealand corporate learning and development company Optimism has won four business eLearning Awards in the last three months – one in Australia, two in New York USA and then most recently overall winner in New Zealand.... > Read more
Brooke Archbold made an Honorary Life Member of the IMRF
Long-time Coastguard stalwart Brooke Archbold has just been made an Honorary Life Member of the International Marine Rescue Federation (IMRF) and Dean Lawrence, Coastguard New Zealand (CNZ) President has just been elected to the IMRF Board, following the 2015 World Maritime... > Read more
Day Skipper Online wins Silver at the LearnX Impact Awards 2015
Day Skipper Online wins Silver at the LearnX Impact Awards 2015... > Read more
Takacat announced as an official supplier to the CBE Safe Boating programme
Takacat announced as an official supplier to the CBE Safe Boating Programme Coastguard Boating Education (CBE) is pleased to announce a new alliance with Takacat... > Read more
Waikato Regional Council wins supreme boating safety award
Waikato Regional Council wins supreme boating safety award Coastguard Boating Education hosted New Zealand’s first-ever Boating Safety Conference on... > Read more