The upgraded jetty features a 108m-long floating pontoon, used by both recreational and commercial operators.<\/p>\n
Drummonds pontoon. Photo \/ Christchurch City Council<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, police said emergency services were called about 2.55pm to a location off Poripori Rd in the Bay of Plenty, where a person had been pulled from the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cCPR was commenced, however they sadly died at the scene. The death will be referred to the coroner.\u201d<\/p>\n
A man is also missing after a water-related incident in the Waikato River this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police were called to the river near Graham Island, in Hamilton, about 3.30pm after a report of a struggling swimmer being swept downstream.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have not been located since. Emergency services remain on-scene carrying out a search of the area.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John was notified of another water-related incident at Mahurangi East, near Martin\u2019s Bay Holiday Park, at 12.42pm that left a person fighting for their life.<\/p>\n
It responded with one ambulance, one rapid response unit, one first response unit, one manager and one clinical support vehicle sent to the scene. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur crews assessed and treated one patient who was transported to North Shore Hospital in a critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Auckland Council confirmed a water-related incident occurred on the beach adjacent to Martin\u2019s Bay Holiday Park this afternoon.<\/p>\n
While park staff assisted to help the person who was affected, there were already onlookers attending who were medically trained.<\/p>\n
Martin\u2019s Bay Holiday Park provided beach access to the ambulance, which transported the victim to hospital. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re relieved that the person involved has survived this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said another person was receiving ambulance care after being pulled from the water this afternoon in Tasman District.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmergency services were called about 3.50pm to Riwaka Valley Rd after a person was pulled from the water. They are now in the care of ambulance services and are reported to be in a serious condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Water safety advice <\/p>\n
Water Safety New Zealand chief executive, Glen Scanlon, urged people to keep in mind the key messages around water safety at this busy time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we tend to see is so often those hot, calm days when people find themselves unexpectedly in more trouble because the conditions look so good,\u201d Scanlon said. <\/p>\n
He advised Kiwis to never swim or dive alone in any of New Zealand\u2019s water environments. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re at a patrolled beach, please swim between the flags. Take advantage of the great surf lifesavers and the job they do to keep you safe.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease, if you\u2019re fishing from land or from a boat as well, wear a lifejacket. It\u2019s going to keep you really super safe. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019ve got your kids, always stay close to them,\u201d Scanlon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were notified about 1.15pm that a person had been pulled from the water by the harbourmaster at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,95,9526,665,1561,8126,690,18791,78,424,6501,111,43,139,69,1118,384,4056,1562,39541,165,1961,102276,1524,376,80],"class_list":["post-226298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-and","tag-another","tag-around","tag-bay","tag-canterbury","tag-dead","tag-fighting","tag-in","tag-life","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-people","tag-person","tag-plenty","tag-spate","tag-their","tag-this","tag-tragedies","tag-waikato","tag-water","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226298","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=226298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}