{"id":412050,"date":"2026-05-05T00:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:11:13","slug":"maritime-new-zealand-probes-fatal-kaikoura-boat-capsize-at-sharks-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/412050\/","title":{"rendered":"Maritime New Zealand probes fatal Kaik\u014dura boat capsize at Sharks Tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">One ambulance attended and police worked at the scene alongside volunteers from Coastguard Kaik\u014dura and members of the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">A Kaik\u014dura Coastguard spokeswoman told the Herald the boat capsized at Sharks Tooth \u2013 a popular boat-access reef dive site off the eastern coast of South Bay.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A person has died after a boat capsized near Sharks Tooth off the coast of Kaik\u014dura's South Bay. Photo \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A person has died after a boat capsized near Sharks Tooth off the coast of Kaik\u014dura&#8217;s South Bay. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Today, Maritime New Zealand said in a statement that it was a tragic accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur thoughts go out to those impacted by it,\u201d the agency said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Information gathered during inquiries will help determine the next steps, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One ambulance attended and police worked at the scene alongside volunteers from Coastguard Kaik\u014dura and members of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,5532,58458,58461,634,11774,11784,84841,296,38289,1446,11595,117,111,43,139,69,10903,29538,14861,15412,80535,4767,80],"class_list":["post-412050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-at","tag-boat","tag-capsize","tag-capsized","tag-death","tag-dive","tag-fatal","tag-inquiries","tag-into","tag-kaikura","tag-making","tag-maritime","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-popular","tag-probes","tag-sharks","tag-spot","tag-tooth","tag-weekend","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412050","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=412050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}