{"id":366999,"date":"2026-04-07T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/366999\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:05:09","slug":"unconscious-swimmer-dies-after-emergency-at-whakamoenga-pt-taupo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/366999\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconscious swimmer dies after emergency at Whakamoenga Pt, Taup\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>6 Apr, 2026 10:01 PMQuick 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\">Police were called on Sunday afternoon. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after being pulled from the water in Taup\u014d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to Whakamoenga Pt, Acacia Bay, about 3.20pm on Sunday after a person was pulled from the water unconscious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cDespite best efforts by those at the scene, the person died,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The death has<br \/>\n         been referred to the coroner.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 6 Apr, 2026 10:01 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,682,6179,7126,15974,71,111,43,139,69,4056,181094,26525,54978,1852,67355,376,192558],"class_list":["post-366999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-at","tag-being","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-emergency","tag-from","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-pt","tag-pulled","tag-swimmer","tag-taup","tag-unconscious","tag-water","tag-whakamoenga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366999","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=366999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}