{"id":361591,"date":"2026-04-03T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361591\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:44:09","slug":"person-taken-to-hospital-after-sea-lion-bite-on-dunedins-brighton-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/361591\/","title":{"rendered":"Person taken to hospital after sea lion bite on Dunedin&#8217;s Brighton beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4PBH03C_copyright_image_44131.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1575\" alt=\"New Zealand sea lion\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe St John spokesperson said the animal was no longer at the scene.<br \/>\nPhoto: AFP \/ Biosphoto \/ Minden Pictures \/ Colin Monteath \/ Hedgehog House\n<\/p>\n<p>A person was been taken to hospital after being bitten by a sea lion at Dunedin&#8217;s Brighton beach on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson confirmed they responded to reports of a sea lion bite just before 1:30pm, and took one person to Dunedin Hospital with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the animal was no longer at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency also attended to assist ambulance staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Otago Daily Times has reported the injured man was a surfer, who was bitten while in the water.<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Conservation spokesperson said people should stay at least 20 metres away from seals and sea lions on land.<\/p>\n<p>In the sea, the mammals were curious and could sometimes investigate people, but it was extremely uncommon for interactions to be anything other than gentle, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St John spokesperson said the animal was no longer at the scene. Photo: AFP \/ Biosphoto \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-361591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361591","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=361591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}