Project on Māhia Peninsula hoping to prevent tragedies at sea

A new project to improve VHF radio coverage and cell phone service on Māhia Peninsula is hoped to prevent tragedies at sea after the death of three Gisborne fishermen in the area. The bodies of Elwood Higgins, Taina Sinoti and Damien Macpherson were found along the eastern Māhia Peninsula coastline in June, after they'd gone missing in an area of ocean with notoriously bad communications, Hawke's Bay Tairawhiti reporter Alexa Cook reports.