{"id":270761,"date":"2026-02-06T14:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270761\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:09:13","slug":"one-dead-after-boat-capsizes-off-thames-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270761\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after boat capsizes off Thames coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTMKYK_Robertsons_Rescue_1_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Richardsons Rescue Coastguard vessel.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nRichardsons Rescue Coastguard vessel.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/Coastguard\n<\/p>\n<p>One person has died, after a boat capsized off Tararu Beach, Thames on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Coastguard was alerted to two people in the water at 11.45am and found both had reached shore, but efforts to resuscitate one of them through CPR and a defibrillator proved unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Police, Fire and Emergency NZ and St John were also at the scene, and the capsized boat was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The death will be referred to the coroner.<\/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":"Richardsons Rescue Coastguard vessel. Photo: Supplied\/Coastguard One person has died, after a boat capsized off Tararu Beach, Thames&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-270761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270761","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=270761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}