Education
Coastguard Units of Eastern Region conduct regular training courses for boating enthusiasts to ensure you are equipped with knowledge and skills to avoid the dangers of the seas and lakes and to stay alive.
Supporting the Coastguard Units is a dedicated organisation within Coastguard New Zealand: Coastguard Boating and Education Services (CBES) who run a series of standardised courses and/or provide professional quality course material and instructor training to coastguard units in order to enable training throughout the country to everyone concerned with boating.
The Core Training courses include: basic water safety, boat handling, updating and interpreting the weather, use of VHF radio and First Aid. Most of these are taught at local Coastguard Units by quailified and certificated instructors, along with more advanced courses for boat skippers and navigators. Special courses are also available to including: using GPS, inboard and outboard motor engineering, oceangoing skipper and navigation skills.
Home study versions of Core Courses are available from CBES.
Click here for Coastguard Training Courses. 
In addition to public training courses, even more rigorous and extensive training of Coastguard crew members who man our rescue vessels and air patrol craft is undertaken continuously, ensuring they are highly competent "professional" volunteers, so you can be safe in the knowledge that when you call Coastguard for help, you'll be in expert hands.
