The man was located as he was being pulled by the tide about a kilometre from the coast.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t clear if the man was even alive, he wasn\u2019t moving and his body heat was minimal but, thankfully, there were small signs of life when they put the spotlight on him and called out over the PA\u201d, Larsen said.<\/p>\n
An Eagle helicopter kept an eye on the man and helped guide the Auckland Maritime Unit to him, a team which Sergeant Craig Kennedy was a part of.<\/p>\n
He said the kayaker could \u201cbarely move or talk\u201d when he helped pull him from the water at 4.40 am.<\/p>\n
The \u201cseriously hypothermic\u201d man was taken to the Te Atatu Boat club to be seen by advanced paramedics, and then on to hospital.<\/p>\n
He was in a serious condition, with Kennedy noting his life had been saved by the speed of the rescue and the life jacket keeping him afloat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re responding to those circumstances, it\u2019s not often that you get a positive outcome like this\u201d, Kennedy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a very lucky guy, it was a cold night \u2013 about 6 degrees \u2013 and he was in the water for a very long time.”<\/p>\n
Senior Sergeant Larsen said everyone who had been part of the rescue effort \u201cshould be proud\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody kicked into action to save this guy\u2019s life, and we even had the Northland Rescue Helicopter on the way in case we needed to widen the search.\u201d<\/p>\n
The other kayaker was also taken to hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man was located as he was being pulled by the tide about a kilometre from the coast.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,3592,38403,20589,11551,103159,27944,98473,111,43,139,69,6507,675,8527,18560,8262,114941,25535],"class_list":{"0":"post-396812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-fall","11":"tag-falling","12":"tag-harbour","13":"tag-hours","14":"tag-hypothermic","15":"tag-kayak","16":"tag-kayaker","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-overnight","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-rescue","24":"tag-rescued","25":"tag-spending","26":"tag-waitemat","27":"tag-waters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396812","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=396812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}