A body believed to be of a man who reportedly fell from his boat into the Waioweka River in January was found by police and search teams this morning.<\/p>\n
Police said the search had been long and slow, hindered by recent bad weather and slips on SH2 between Matawai and \u014cp\u014dtiki. <\/p>\n
The body was found around 9am on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
The man was originally reported to have been swept downstream after falling out of his boat at around 5.30pm on January 23.<\/p>\n
An initial search by emergency services located the vessel, but the man remained unaccounted for.<\/p>\n
Following the recovery, police thanked those involved in the search efforts.<\/p>\n
“In particular, we would like to acknowledge Land SAR volunteers, local jet boat and helicopter operators, along with iwi whose knowledge of the river and surrounding terrain has been invaluable.”<\/p>\n
“We are also grateful for the assistance of the Police National Dive Squad.”<\/p>\n
A formal identification process would be carried out and the man’s death was referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body believed to be of a man who reportedly fell from his boat into the Waioweka River…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-276379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276379","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=276379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}