{"id":260845,"date":"2026-01-31T10:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260845\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:42:09","slug":"controlled-explosion-rocks-residents-north-of-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260845\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlled explosion rocks residents north of Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4KW9LCF_219_WhangaparaoaPath03_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"575\" alt=\"Part of the Whangapar\u0101oa Peninsula\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA marine locator marker was blown up at a beach on Auckland&#8217;s Whangapar\u0101oa Peninsula.<br \/>\nPhoto: Auckland Council\n<\/p>\n<p>A controlled explosion has rocked residents on the Whangapar\u0101oa Peninsula north of Auckland after a marine locator marker was found floating at Okoromai Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The markers are pyrotechnic devices designed to ignite on contact with water, and are used to indicate a location at sea.<\/p>\n<p>A Defence Force spokesperson said it was found in the water by a member of the public, and handed in to the Coast Guard, which called in the NZDF and police.<\/p>\n<p>A cordon was put up around the beach, and it was blown up by a Defence Force ordnance disposal team.<\/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>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A marine locator marker was blown up at a beach on Auckland&#8217;s Whangapar\u0101oa Peninsula. Photo: Auckland Council A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260846,"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-260845","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\/260845","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=260845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}