The Auckland Marine Rescue Centre is the control centre for the Coastguard Northern Region and Surf Lifesaving Northern Region, New Zealand (responsible for the region from

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Funding

The facilities of the Auckland Marine Rescue Centre were built with a donation by the

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(now having become the commercial entity managing the Port of Auckland) and were first brought into operation in 1991. The operation of the centre is paid for by the organisations that occupy the building through the AMRC Trust.

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).Auckland Marine Rescue Centre
(from the 'm-net – ICT business news and information' website. Retrieved 27 November 2007.) 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. Directly attached to the north of the centre is a small artificial harbour sheltering the craft of the rescue, police,

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. Several meeting rooms for events and functions are also available, and often cater for education services such as water safety.

References

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