The Tutukaka Coastguard team are among volunteers searching for two fishers on a boat that failed to return home yesterday. Photo / Supplied
Search and rescue teams are looking for fishing boat off the Northland coast that is overdue returning home.
Two people on the 17-foot, single-engine boat had been expected to return to Pataua South, east of Whangārei, at 7pm yesterday.
Police and Coastguard volunteers from Tutukaka and Whangārei were alerted at
9pm and immediately started a search.
By 2am, the police Eagle helicopter had joined the search but there was no sign of the boat, police said.
Search teams were then temporarily stood down at 4am, before resuming again at 8am.




