{"id":307401,"date":"2026-03-01T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307401\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:13:09","slug":"missing-kayakers-body-recovered-after-search-and-rescue-operation-near-waiwera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307401\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing kayaker\u2019s body recovered after search and rescue operation near Waiwera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>1 Mar, 2026 01:07 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The body of a man has been found after a search and rescue operation near Waiwera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The body of a missing kayaker has been found after a search and rescue operation in north Auckland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they were alerted to a man\u2019s disappearance near Waiwera at around 7.35am today after he was seen coming out of his kayak, then failing to resurface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A search operation involving<br \/>\n         police, the Maritime Unit, members from Surf Lifesaving New Zealand and volunteers from Hibiscus Coastguard was launched this morning.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">However, police confirmed he was found dead early this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 1 Mar, 2026 01:07 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,51,1558,7800,1874,98473,152971,6501,3180,111,43,139,529,69,17286,8694,8527,1870,167982],"class_list":["post-307401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-body","tag-found","tag-kayaker","tag-kayakers","tag-missing","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-recovered","tag-rescue","tag-search","tag-waiwera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307401","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=307401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}