{"id":203267,"date":"2025-12-26T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/203267\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:58:09","slug":"search-for-missing-person-in-port-waikato-jet-ski-incident-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/203267\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for missing person in Port Waikato jet ski incident continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4OLQWVR_copyright_image_93058\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"View toward Port Waikato (file photo).\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPort Waikato (file image).<br \/>\nPhoto: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>A search will continue Saturday morning for a person missing in the sea after a jet ski incident near Port Waikato.<\/p>\n<p>Police said search and rescue teams and the Eagle helicopter will be dispatched.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were reported to be in distress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/582738\/water-search-for-missing-jet-skier-ended-for-second-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after the incident on Christmas Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two have been rescued since, including a 5-year-old child.<\/p>\n<p>Surf Life Saving said the missing person was a male.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Waikato (file image). Photo: Google Maps A search will continue Saturday morning for a person missing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-203267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203267","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=203267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}