{"id":350085,"date":"2026-03-27T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350085\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:54:09","slug":"police-investigation-launched-after-unexplained-death-onboard-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350085\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigation launched after unexplained death onboard cruise ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>27 Mar, 2026 04:01 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\">There&#8217;s been an &#8220;unexplained death&#8221; on an Anthem of the Seas cruise ship sailing around New Zealand.<br \/>\nPhoto \/ Royal Caribbean<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Investigations are underway  after a person died onboard a cruise ship in New Zealand waters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New Zealand police were notified of the death onboard the Anthem of the Seas cruise, operated by Royal Caribbean, early on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cPolice were notified of an unexplained death on a commercial<br \/>\n         cruise ship traversing New Zealand on 25 March around 1.40am.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Stuff has reported the ship was arriving in the Bay of Islands at the time of the incident and was inbound from Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Investigations are underway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 27 Mar, 2026 04:01 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,2037,634,6179,42,12898,35199,1743,43,17097,4056,675,17093,40,38,41,39,58455,23504,25535,80],"class_list":["post-350085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-cruise","tag-death","tag-died","tag-headlines","tag-investigation","tag-investigations","tag-launched","tag-news","tag-onboard","tag-person","tag-police","tag-ship","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-underway","tag-unexplained","tag-waters","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350085","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=350085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}