{"id":134157,"date":"2025-11-14T05:19:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/134157\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:19:15","slug":"woman-rescued-from-battering-of-incoming-tide-at-castor-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/134157\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman rescued from battering of incoming tide at Castor Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A woman is fortunate she had a working mobile phone and police were near enough at hand after she was overtaken by an incoming tide on Auckland&#8217;s North Shore this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The woman called the police after being trapped on rocks by the incoming tide at Castor Bay around 1.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">By the time Waitemat\u0101 East police arrived, she was being battered by waves. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">An officer climbed the rocks to locate the woman and provide reassurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Once the maritime unit arrived, the officer jumped into the water to assist her onto the waiting boat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The woman was taken to Mechanic&#8217;s Bay for a medical assessment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Senior Sergeant CJ Miles said: &#8220;This rescue also highlights the importance of a working mobile phone, and to contact emergency services if you need help&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">This water rescue is the second significant effort of its kind this week, with two being rescued from a blowhole and one from the sea in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/11\/13\/rescue-of-pair-from-blowhole-diverted-after-bystander-falls-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Coromandel on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/one-of-the-people-that-needed-to-be-rescued-is-airlifted-to-HGQHYV7SWVEFLEZ6J6RULVHDDA.jpg\" alt=\"A man is airifted off Whiritoa Beach in Coromandel Thursday.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A man is airifted off Whiritoa Beach in Coromandel Thursday. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman is fortunate she had a working mobile phone and police were near enough at hand after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-134157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}