{"id":909297,"date":"2026-09-29T02:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909297\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:58:09","slug":"sailors-rescued-from-raft-after-hitting-a-whale-pod-sinks-their-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909297\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailors rescued from raft after hitting a whale pod sinks their yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people have been rescued after their yacht struck a whale and eventually capsized while sailing between Fiji and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The crew of the Tai Tam were forced to abandon ship and were picked up by a container ship some 250 miles north of Norfolk Island after the New Zealand Rescue Coordination Centre responded to their distress call.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper, Jeremy Cooper, says he&#8217;s lucky to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We managed to mitigate it to some extent but the damage was so bad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;After about half an hour it&#8217;s pretty clear that the boat was not going to be recoverable in terms of being able to get it back underway.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people have been rescued after their yacht struck a whale and eventually capsized while sailing between Fiji&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,477551,3755,128,38810,338,33758],"class_list":["post-909297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-capsized","tag-podcast","tag-science","tag-whale","tag-wildlife","tag-yacht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909297","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=909297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}