{"id":399325,"date":"2026-04-27T03:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399325\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:52:09","slug":"person-rescued-after-going-overboard-from-cook-strait-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399325\/","title":{"rendered":"Person rescued after going overboard from Cook Strait ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4K4URE6_250703_Livia_Ferry_5_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"Bluebridge Livia\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nStraitNZ Bluebridge Livia ferry.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n<p>A person has been rescued, after falling overboard from a ferry in the Cook Strait.<\/p>\n<p>StraitNZ Bluebridge spokesperson Will Dady confirmed a person overboard sparked deployment of the ship&#8217;s rapid emergency vessel.<\/p>\n<p>He said the person was recovered quickly and safely from the water by crew onboard the Livia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d like to thank our crew for their quick actions. No further information is available at this time.&#8221;<\/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":"StraitNZ Bluebridge Livia ferry. Photo: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone A person has been rescued, after falling overboard from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-399325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399325","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=399325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}