{"id":330418,"date":"2026-03-15T05:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/330418\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:59:12","slug":"dive-squad-search-lake-manapouri-for-missing-boatie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/330418\/","title":{"rendered":"Dive squad search Lake Manapouri for missing boatie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2_0501246697.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Lake Manapouri. File photo: STEPHEN JAQUIERY\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lake Manapouri. File photo: STEPHEN JAQUIERY<\/p>\n<p>A search involving the National Dive Squad is ongoing after a person fell overboard from a vessel on Lake Manapouri last night.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Alun Griffiths, of Southland Search and Rescue, said police were notified at about 6.15pm that a person had fallen from a vessel while about 1km from shore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An initial search last night was unsuccessful and later paused at around 10pm,&#8221; Sgt Griffiths said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Police National Dive Squad are currently assisting with search efforts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Manapouri. File photo: STEPHEN JAQUIERY A search involving the National Dive Squad is ongoing after a person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-330418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330418","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=330418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}