{"id":386819,"date":"2026-01-02T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386819\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:28:09","slug":"person-in-life-threatening-condition-after-near-drowning-at-whitewater-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/386819\/","title":{"rendered":"Person in life-threatening condition after near-drowning at WhiteWater World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person is fighting for life in hospital after almost drowning at a Gold Coast theme park this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were called to WhiteWater World at 2.03pm (3.03pm AEDT) &#8220;following a post immersion incident&#8221;, Queensland Ambulance said.<\/p>\n<p>The person was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital in a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/f32873b4-eed9-4c6f-899a-cb2058a68eb5.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>A general view of WhiteWater World. (Dreamworld)<\/p>\n<p>WhiteWater World is the water theme park attached to Dreamworld.<\/p>\n<p>The person was pulled from the water of the Cave of Waves attraction, a 50-metre-long wave pool, the theme park said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our highly trained lifeguards responded immediately, and Queensland Ambulance Service attended the scene promptly,&#8221; the theme park said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The safety and wellbeing of our guests and team members is our highest priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person is fighting for life in hospital after almost drowning at a Gold Coast theme park this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-386819","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\/386819","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=386819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}