A man has died at St Clair Beach after extensive attempts to resuscitate him today.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said the man was believed to be a local and was in the water at the saltwater pool end of the beach when he started waving for help.<\/p>\n
Two French tourists with surfboards went to his aid and brought him ashore.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John watch operations manager Cam Third was at the scene and said CPR was given as soon as he reached the shore.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018A lot of off duty ambulance officers, doctors and firefighters were also on the beach at the time and got stuck in to help before we [St John ambulance crews] arrived.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018That was awesome. That was really great to have \u2014 very helpful.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Sadly, he has passed.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Mr Third said the coroner would now investigate to determine whether the death was caused by drowning or a medical event.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John was notified of a water incident in Saint Clair at 11:51am today, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
One ambulance, one rapid response unit, and one operations manager attended.<\/p>\n
A \u00a0r\u0101hui is now in place at the beach until further notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The r\u0101hui covers an area of Saint Clair and St Kilda beach for three days\u00a0lifting at\u00a0midday February 21 and applies to the gathering of kaimoana\/seafood and recreational activities,\u00a0Te R\u016bnanga o \u014ct\u0101kou said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died at St Clair Beach after extensive attempts to resuscitate him today. Witnesses said the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-291997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291997","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=291997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}