{"id":250745,"date":"2026-01-25T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:44:09","slug":"man-still-missing-after-opotiki-river-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250745\/","title":{"rendered":"Man still missing after \u014cp\u014dtiki river incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Waioweka River. Photo \/ Mike Scott<\/p>\n

An operation to locate a man unaccounted for following a water-related incident in \u014cp\u014dtiki continues today.<\/p>\n

Police were called to the Waioweka River at around 5.30pm on Friday after a report a man had fallen off his boat and was swept downstream.<\/p>\n

\n Emergency services carried out an initial search of
\n the area and located the vessel nearby.\n <\/p>\n

A rescue helicopter and private helicopters were also involved in the search<\/a>, as well as local jet boat operators.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, at this stage, the man remains outstanding,\u201d Eastern Bay of Plenty Police Area Commander Inspector Nicky Cooney said today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,13982,5504,671,47956,5158,6501,111,43,139,69,17286,669,6739,6100,1865,24177,116037],"class_list":{"0":"post-250745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-continues","10":"tag-following","11":"tag-incident","12":"tag-locate","13":"tag-man","14":"tag-missing","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-operation","20":"tag-ptiki","21":"tag-river","22":"tag-still","23":"tag-today","24":"tag-unaccounted","25":"tag-waterrelated"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250745","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=250745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}