{"id":358276,"date":"2026-04-01T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358276\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:35:09","slug":"man-who-fell-overboard-from-the-interislander-extremely-unlikely-to-have-survived-police-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/358276\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who fell overboard from the Interislander \u2018extremely unlikely\u2019 to have survived, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cInitial inquiries were undertaken, including further searches of the vessel and attempts to contact the man,\u201d Gifford said.<\/p>\n

She said CCTV camera footage from the Kai\u0101rahi ferry confirmed the man went into the water just after 11pm \u2013 about two hours after the ship left Picton.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing confirmation of this, the Police Maritime Unit and the Rescue Co-ordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) were formally engaged shortly after 4am, and a co-ordinated maritime search and rescue operation was initiated,\u201d<\/a> she said.<\/p>\n

Gifford said multiple police, coastguard and aerial assets were deployed to find the man and drift modelling was used to guide search activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeather conditions deteriorated throughout the day, reducing the effectiveness of surface searching. Expert advice received indicated survivability was extremely unlikely.\u201d <\/p>\n

She said the maritime surface search in the area had been completed, but broadcasts requesting vessels in the area to keep watch for the man would continue.<\/p>\n

Police were in contact with the man\u2019s next of kin, and the Coroner\u2019s office had been advised.<\/p>\n

\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cInitial inquiries were undertaken, including further searches of the vessel and attempts to contact the man,\u201d Gifford said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16574,47753,13989,71,305,42,80603,114726,5158,43,17091,675,5659,9348,223,61,40,38,41,39,122,1299],"class_list":["post-358276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bill","tag-extremely","tag-fell","tag-from","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-hickman","tag-interislander","tag-man","tag-news","tag-overboard","tag-police","tag-say","tag-survived","tag-the","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unlikely","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358276","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=358276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}