{"id":318983,"date":"2026-03-08T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318983\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T09:48:10","slug":"extensive-search-for-kayaker-on-west-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318983\/","title":{"rendered":"Extensive search for kayaker on West Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An extensive search is under way for a missing kayaker on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Mark Kirkwood, of West Coast Search and Rescue, said emergency services received a report of a person swept out to sea in the Greymouth\/Blaketown area yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Extensive searches have been conducted in the area, involving police, Fire and Emergency NZ, Kotuku Surf Lifesaving and Garden City Helicopters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Emily B Drifter\u00a0had also been\u00a0deployed, using live GPS tracking to replicate where a person in the ocean may be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A kayak was located washed up near Blaketown about 7.30pm yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Kirkwood said police are making inquiries to determine whether it is linked to the person that was seen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re asking anybody who recognises this kayak, or has not heard from somebody who was kayaking in Greymouth yesterday, to contact police via 105.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please quote the reference number P065678948.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An extensive search is under way for a missing kayaker on the West Coast. Senior Sergeant Mark Kirkwood,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-318983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318983","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=318983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}