{"id":155751,"date":"2025-11-27T04:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155751\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:10:09","slug":"man-dies-after-being-pulled-from-water-rahui-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/155751\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being pulled from water, r\u0101hui in place"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surf Lifesaving NZ (SLSNZ) Eastern region lifesaving manager Chaz Gibbons-Campbell said an off-duty Mount Maunganui lifeguard came across the man near Hart St when emergency services were already present.<\/p>\n

Other lifeguards were called to assist, but they were not needed.<\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John sent an ambulance, a rapid response unit, and an operations manager.<\/p>\n

Gibbons-Campbell said iwi have placed a r\u0101hui (access restriction) on Mount Maunganui beach from Leisure Island to Omanu Surf Club and ask the public to stay out of the water until it is lifted.<\/p>\n

\"ThereThere were strong currents and big swells at Mount Maunganui beach on Wednesday evening. Photo \/ Alex Cairns<\/p>\n

He said the man was pulled from the water during low tide while there were \u201creally strong currents\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said the bigger waves were about 1.5 metres.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re finding that two hours either side of low tide is when the currents are really pulling off those banks. People are walking out when it\u2019s shallow initially, then they step off into a deeper part of the ocean and get swept out.\u201d<\/p>\n

He advised the public, \u201cif in doubt, stay out\u201d, as lifeguards are not on patrol at the moment.<\/p>\n

Bijou Johnson<\/a> is a multimedia journalist based in the Bay of Plenty. A passionate writer and reader, she grew up in Tauranga and developed a love for journalism while exploring various disciplines at university. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies from Massey University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surf Lifesaving NZ (SLSNZ) Eastern region lifesaving manager Chaz Gibbons-Campbell said an off-duty Mount Maunganui lifeguard came across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,7972,682,7126,71,42,78,3120,5158,17707,13233,43,6507,4056,6744,26525,39427,103198,40,38,41,39,376],"class_list":["post-155751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-beach","tag-being","tag-dies","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-main","tag-man","tag-maunganui","tag-mount","tag-news","tag-overnight","tag-person","tag-place","tag-pulled","tag-rhui","tag-stetch","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155751","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=155751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}