{"id":327370,"date":"2025-12-04T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327370\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:02:16","slug":"five-people-puppy-rescued-from-sinking-boat-off-coast-of-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327370\/","title":{"rendered":"Five people, puppy rescued from sinking boat off coast of Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five people and a dog have been rescued after boat began sinking off the coast of Townsville in North Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>A 45-year-old woman, a 28-year-old woman, a 50-year-old man, a 41-year-old man and a blue heeler puppy called Sooky were found on a sinking inflatable boat 30 nautical miles off the coast of Cape Bowling Green about 6.30am.<\/p>\n<p>They were rescued by Queensland Government Air (QGAir) Rescue 521 after they set off a beacon.<\/p>\n<p>Their boat\ufeff was a seven-metre inflatable boat used to service a 120-foot yacht, but the yacht was not within swimming distance of the boat.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into the cause of the incident are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people and a dog have been rescued after boat began sinking off the coast of Townsville in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-327370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}