Two male boaties had a narrow escape from the pounding surf at Mount Maunganui on Saturday night.

Tauranga Coastguard incident manager Barry Elshaw says police called Tauranga Coastguard at about 7.30pm looking for two people in a 14 foot dinghy about 1km out from Mount Maunganui.
Barry made a call to all vessels to see if there were any vessels nearby who were able to assist the two men.
The coastguard call was answered by launch Leeway, which was entering Tauranga Harbour at the time.
Leeway turned around and searched for the vessel in the dim light, aided by directions relayed to Coastguard by police officers on the beach.
The initial callout stated that the two people in the dinghy couldn't start their engine, had taken on water, had no lifejackets and were drifting towards the shore.
At the time of the distress call there was a northerly breeze of 12 to 15 knots and an outgoing tide, creating a reasonable chop on top of the swell that ranged from 1.2 to 1.8 metres.
The dinghy was getting dangerously close to the breakers on Mount Main Beach when Leeway managed to secure a line to the drifting vessel and tow it to safety with its distressed fishermen into the safety of Tauranga Harbour at about 9.30pm.
'I understand they got there just in time, when rescued they were one minute away from the rocks,” says Barry.
'The captain of the Leeway did a very good job; I will personally be in touch with him to thank him.”
Barry says the Tauranga Coastguard rescue crew were on standby but wouldn't have got to the stranded boaties in time.
After rescue, it was found out that the boaties had one life jacket between them and a cell phone and no radio.
Barry says a lesson can be learned from this incident.
'You should take lifejackets with you, have a form of flotation and should have a motor that's working.”