Photo from Northern Advocate showing the first helicopter retrieval in Whangarei on May 1982. A crewman was taken off a ship near the Poor Knights. He is being transferred in this photo in Kensington Park to an ambulance. In the photo (left to right) are: Norm Hooson, Dr Sprague, Alec Dixon, Derek Babe and Bill King (in front).

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