Knowing the weather was forecast to deteriorate further in the hour or two after, Harvey made the call to activate his crew to go out and reach him.<\/p>\n
The windsurfer at West Shore in Napier during the State of Emergency for Cyclone Vaianu. Photo \/ Lee Pritchard<\/p>\n
But just as the boat was set to depart, Harvey learned that the windsurfer had made it back to shore south of the Westshore Surf Life Saving Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went around to have a conversation with him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The windsurfer told Harvey he was highly experienced.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can be the most experienced person in the world at something, that doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t go wrong,\u201d Harvey said.<\/p>\n
He explained to the windsurfer that people had flooded 111 with calls and that he\u2019d dragged his crew away from their homes to come to save him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s what we\u2019re here for, it\u2019s what we do, but for someone to actually go and put themselves in that position to then put our crews in those situations is just not appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harvey said two people were also seen on bodyboards in the Napier inner channel next to Perfume Point.<\/p>\n
The incident involved at least two police vehicles, people from Napier City Council Emergency Management Team plus the Coastguard crew.<\/p>\n
Harvey said the number of people going near the water \u201cfor a photo\u201d on Sunday was sad.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf that one thing that they just cannot control goes wrong, the amount of emergency services that that puts at risk, it\u2019s just incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur crew would like to stay home with their families too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Napier City Council said residents needed to stay off all beaches and coastal paths during the cyclone.<\/p>\n
The council said people should not be surfing, swimming or fishing and they should avoid viewing waves from shorelines or exposed areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese conditions can change quickly and become life-threatening without warning.\u201d<\/p>\n
About 25 minutes earlier, police were called to Marine Parade as onlookers jumped the fence to the closed viewing platform, with video capturing them being splashed by waves.<\/p>\n
Police said upon arrival, they found people in the area, who were given safety advice about the warnings and advisories in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knowing the weather was forecast to deteriorate further in the hour or two after, Harvey made the call…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29893,50356,7972,35631,33959,48901,45212,1976,37441,3607,3180,111,43,139,4061,69,27565,10809,27300,196160,192592,196161,12806,13745,196159],"class_list":{"0":"post-376047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-authorities","9":"tag-bans","10":"tag-beach","11":"tag-coastguard","12":"tag-cyclone","13":"tag-decided","14":"tag-disappointed","15":"tag-hawkes","16":"tag-ignoring","17":"tag-napier","18":"tag-near","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-number","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-scolds","25":"tag-sunday","26":"tag-theyre","27":"tag-thrillseekers","28":"tag-vaianu","29":"tag-vaianus","30":"tag-venture","31":"tag-waves","32":"tag-windsurfer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376047","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=376047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}