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Paul van Rensburg - Source: Close Up -
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The search has been called off for Paul van Rensburg but his friends think he's alive.
How can a yacht, its skipper and his dog disappear into thin air?
This is the question being asked of officials as the search for yachtie Paul van Rensburg is suspended.
The 40-year-old left Tauranga a week ago bound for Gisborne, just before a southerly storm blew through.
He texted his girlfriend around 2pm, then vanished off the face of the earth.
Mike Hosking talks to the Rescue Coordination Centre, along with van Rensburg's friends Regan Boocock and Wendy Palmer from Tauranga, about the search for the 11-metre yacht
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