{"id":270018,"date":"2026-02-06T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270018\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:18:08","slug":"tararu-beach-incident-one-dead-one-injured-after-boat-capsizes-off-thames-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270018\/","title":{"rendered":"Tararu Beach incident: One dead, one injured after boat capsizes off Thames beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur thoughts are with the family and friends affected by this tragic incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Coastguard's Richardson Rescue vessel later retrieved the capsized boat. Photo \/ Coastguard\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Coastguard&#8217;s Richardson Rescue vessel later retrieved the capsized boat. Photo \/ Coastguard<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesperson said emergency services were called to Tararu Rd just before midday, with one person pulled from the water unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDespite emergency medical treatment, they died at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson told the Herald they sent two ambulances and a rapid response vehicle at midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">One person in a serious condition was taken to hospital by ambulance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the death will be referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur thoughts are with the family and friends affected by this tragic incident.\u201d Coastguard&#8217;s Richardson Rescue vessel later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7972,682,5532,127406,690,6179,71,671,10933,111,43,139,69,6662,5270,4056,10903,26525,153085,153086,132851,376],"class_list":["post-270018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-beach","tag-being","tag-boat","tag-capsizes","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-from","tag-incident","tag-injured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-one","tag-person","tag-popular","tag-pulled","tag-tararu","tag-thames","tag-unresponsive","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270018","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=270018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}