{"id":355798,"date":"2026-03-30T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355798\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:43:09","slug":"search-for-person-who-went-overboard-from-ferry-in-cook-strait-during-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355798\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for person who went overboard from ferry in Cook Strait during the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Kiwirail confirmed the person had gone overboard from the Interislander\u2019s Kai\u0101rahi ferry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Harbourmaster Grant Nalder could not comment on the incident, but said situations like this were \u201cusually noted by the ship they\u2019re on, the vessel they\u2019re on. Ideally [the ship] notices so you have a time and place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Nalder understood Coastguard recently launched onto the water to search, while a police boat is not involved in the search yet.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A rescue helicopter can be seen flying in a pattern over the Cook Strait. Image \/ Flight Radar\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A rescue helicopter can be seen flying in a pattern over the Cook Strait. Image \/ Flight Radar<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">Coastguard said two vessels had been deployed and were at the scene of the search.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jcUtdRSv\" style=\"display:none\">A rescue helicopter can be seen on Flight Radar circling in the Cook Strait off the coast of M\u0101kara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwirail confirmed the person had gone overboard from the Interislander\u2019s Kai\u0101rahi ferry. Harbourmaster Grant Nalder could not comment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4194,2837,47117,2082,71,2219,42,78,43,2551,17091,6507,4056,675,5659,1870,14042,223,40,38,41,39,2201,1299],"class_list":["post-355798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cook","tag-during","tag-ferry","tag-for","tag-from","tag-gone","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-news","tag-night","tag-overboard","tag-overnight","tag-person","tag-police","tag-say","tag-search","tag-strait","tag-the","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-went","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355798","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=355798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}