Tonga’s government is investigating after a boat carrying more than a dozen whale watchers capsized in rough seas last Friday.<\/p>\n
A second boat travelling with the group pulled passengers from the water while other whale watching boats came in to assist.<\/p>\n
There were no casualties, but Tonga’s Ministry of Tourism says the boat wasn’t a licensed whale watching operator.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Justin Duckworth, from the Anglican Church’s Diocese of New Zealand and Polynesia, says the passengers were in Tonga for a church conference when the incident happened.<\/p>\n
“Some of them had diesel of them from the water, and so there was a check up at the hospital just to check that the diesel was off their body appropriately,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Everybody was pretty rattled and just very glad that everybody was safe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonga’s government is investigating after a boat carrying more than a dozen whale watchers capsized in rough seas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,205575,3755,128,72989,338],"class_list":["post-869796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boat-capsized","tag-podcast","tag-science","tag-whale-watchers","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869796","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=869796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}