{"id":330934,"date":"2026-03-15T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/330934\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:57:24","slug":"police-dive-squad-searching-for-missing-southland-boatie-in-lake-manapouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/330934\/","title":{"rendered":"Police dive squad searching for missing Southland boatie in Lake Manap\u014duri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/K3OBIPQKQZDOZIOUPMWGQUCZWU.png\" alt=\"Janhavi Gosavi\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/>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 class=\"\">Police are still searching for a person who fell into Lake Manap\u014duri last night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were notified at 6.15pm on Saturday that the person had gone overboard about 1km offshore in the Fiordland lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cAn initial search last night was unsuccessful and later paused at around 10pm,\u201d Southland search<br \/>\n         and rescue Sergeant Alun Griffiths said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"dmpeAfkwcv\" style=\"display:none\">The Police National Dive Squad is currently assisting with the search efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[121774,11774,13989,2082,78,296,13207,685,177810,6501,111,43,139,2551,69,4056,675,11929,15488,1557,6100],"class_list":["post-330934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-boatie","tag-dive","tag-fell","tag-for","tag-in","tag-into","tag-lake","tag-last","tag-manapuri","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-police","tag-searching","tag-southland","tag-squad","tag-still"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330934","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=330934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}