The search for Jacek Grzybowski, 28, resumed at first light today. Police believe 
he could still be alive despite nearly a week out in the open. Mr Grzybowski was 
last seen around 9am on Saturday, by residents in Sunny Grove, Wainuiomata, seeking 
directions for the start of the Whakanui Track which runs from the street into the 
Rimutaka Forest Park.  He was equipped only for a day tramp. Police said today that 
he has still not been located. He has spent six nights in the open. Search leader 
Inspector Mike Wright said the field teams now included volunteers from Wellington, 
Wairarapa, Palmerston North, Horowhenua and Tararua.  The Upper Hutt community rescue 
team had 14 search specialists planning the activity from their base. "It's a big 
logistical operation with an intensive search effort to find Jacek," he said. "The 
help we've had from community groups like the Salvation Army with catering and the 
Hutt Valley Emergency Management office with additional equipment is a great support 
to those doing the hard physical activity on the ground." Seven of the 10 search teams 
will probably stay in the bush overnight. Mr Grzybowski's flatmates, also Polish, 
became increasingly worried when he did not return home on Saturday evening. They had 
not been sure what to do and on Tuesday told their employer, who contacted police.  
"If he's hunkered down under bush and fern cover and keeping warm then it is survivable," 
Mr Wright said.  An Air Force Iroquois helicopter will again be used today to help drop 
ground search  teams into remote areas of the park and to undertake aerial searches.  
It was believed Mr Grzybowski hoped to tramp to Mt Matthews and back, he said.  The 
demanding tramp was unlikely to have been achieved in one day.  Police were still 
appealing to trampers, hunters and other bush users who were in the park over the 
weekend to contact police if they saw Mr Grzybowski.  Mr Grzybowski was described 
as 180cm tall, with brown/blond hair and of medium build.  He arrived in Wellington 
in February on a working holiday and has spent most weekends exploring bush and 
coastal tracks in the Wellington region. Some of his family are expected to arrive 
in Wellington at the weekend.  A police spokeswoman said today the disappearance 
had some similarities to that of missing Wellington woman Kaye Stewart in 2005.
On June 13, 2005, Mrs Stewart, then 62, vanished after asking a Conservation Department 
worker for directions in the Rimutaka Forest Park, near Wainuiomata. She was never found.

In an uncanny stroke of luck, a man stuck on top of his four wheel-drive in the 
Hutt river was spotted and saved by a swiftwater rescue expert. Derek Brenchley 
was just the ma to help Dion Climo, who had benn sitting on his 4WD for more 
than three hours before being rescued on Wednesday night. Mr Brenchley - a 
swftwater rescue specialist  - was walking with his dogs besdie state highway 
2 about 8 pm when he heard the man shouting for helpover the sound of traffic. 
He followed the cries. "When I found him, the vehicle was on its side in the 
middle of the river and he was on top of it. He was sitting on the door of the 
vehicle, huddled in his jacket." The river was flowing swiftly and Mr Climo would 
have been swept away if he had tried to leave his vehicle. Mr Brenchley called 
111 and police arrived. A descision was made to hand the rescue mission over 
to Upper Hutt Community Rescue, of which Mr Brenchley is a team leader.
Once the necessary equipment had arrived, he swam to Mr Climo with a line, 
"kitted him up" with lifejacket and helmet and helped him back to land. Fellow 
community rescuer Dave Butcher said it was a "huge coincidence" that 
Mr Brenchley happened to walk past. In all, eight people helped in the rescue 
effort. Mr Climo, who was not injured, said he had been driving the 4WD across 
the river when it rolled. It travelled about 200 metres downstream before it came 
to a rest and he climbed on top.