{"id":138779,"date":"2025-11-17T02:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138779\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T02:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:30:06","slug":"teenager-suffers-spinal-injury-after-greerton-pool-diving-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/138779\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager suffers spinal injury after Greerton pool diving accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3e5c054c-732a-420f-bb2e-f026fa406ed3.jpg\" alt=\"Ayla Yeoman\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/author\/ayla-yeoman\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Ayla Yeoman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reporter\u00b7SunLive\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>17 Nov, 2025 01:17 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter flew a teen from Tauranga to Middlemore Hospital in Auckland after she was injured at Greerton swimming pool. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A teenager who injured her spine diving into a lap pool at Greerton Aquatic and Leisure Centre is being treated at Middlemore Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bay Venues general manager Paul Dunphy said the girl dived into the pool at noon on Sunday, struck the bottom,  and lost consciousness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Lifeguards<br \/>\n         rescued the injured girl from the water and administered CPR.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Emergency services arrived on site, and the teenager was conscious and alert when leaving the facility. She was flown to Auckland by a Westpac Rescue Helicopter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cUnfortunately, they have sustained a spinal injury and our thoughts are with them and their loved ones,\u201d Dunphy said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayla Yeoman Reporter\u00b7SunLive\u00b7 17 Nov, 2025 01:17 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,74,50845,682,1550,13208,94501,2241,10933,15258,296,83756,94502,111,43,139,69,5198,41114,23747,6378,4054,23505],"class_list":["post-138779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-after","tag-aquatic","tag-being","tag-centre","tag-diving","tag-greerton","tag-hospital","tag-injured","tag-injury","tag-into","tag-leisure","tag-middlemore","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pool","tag-spinal","tag-spine","tag-suffers","tag-teenager","tag-treated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138779","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=138779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}