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December 15 Update

Updated December 15, 2013

Air search now by Australian pilots volunteering to help locate the schooner Nina and its crew of 7.

The Wrights, parents of Danielle Wright remain in Australia to assist in the air search efforts.

New Zealand ocean systems has now offered to assist in the currents and winds models.

Hope is what this search is all about: we need your help to get the resources back out there to search.

There needs to be serious improvements in the manner that search and rescue managers and agencies manage their day to day jobs. This includes serious changes to honor the common practices to search early not late.

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Nov 28 Update

Updated November 28, 2013

TES SV Nina Search Fund has flown over 297 hours in the Tasman Sea; these are privately donated funds for the single purpose use to locate and bring home the schooner Nina and its crew of 7, offshore New Zealand and Australia. That air search effort is 400% (4 times) the effort by the agencies that stopped searching for these survivors on July 4 (the incomplete search was ‘suspended’ pending new information). In addition over 13,000 volunteers have assisted the families of the Nina 7 by carefully viewing and tagging possible sailing vessels on the images from the American earth satellites provided by the private company Digital Globle Inc. of Longmont, Colorado USA.  “Thank you,” from the families and friends of the schooner Nina 7.