{"id":42288,"date":"2025-09-25T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42288\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:30:08","slug":"post-photographer-hopes-viral-ragasa-man-on-bench-image-warns-against-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/42288\/","title":{"rendered":"Post photographer hopes viral Ragasa man-on-bench image warns against danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Post photographer Elson Li did not expect to see anyone when he arrived at the Tseung Kwan O promenade, where raging waves were crashing into the coast as Super Typhoon Ragasa reached its closest point to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But a man sitting alone on a bench facing the sea, with the Tseung Kwan O Cross Bay Bridge in the background, caught his eye.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was 6.30am on Wednesday, when the highest-level No 10 hurricane warning signal was in force.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At that time, waves reaching up to two-thirds the height of the 17-metre-tall (56-foot) Tseung Kwan O Cross Bay Link kept crashing into the coast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A wave sweeps the man off the bench feet during Ragasa. Photo: Elson Li\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f3df3593-5b17-4cc3-9a7a-f3ed4169f351_aef15115.jpg\" title=\"A wave sweeps the man off the bench feet during Ragasa. Photo: Elson Li\"\/>A wave sweeps the man off the bench feet during Ragasa. Photo: Elson Li<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As he was trying to figure out how to call out to the man, Li snapped away while he walked to a wall 10 metres behind him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post photographer Elson Li did not expect to see anyone when he arrived at the Tseung Kwan O&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,37831,156,37832,37830,4431,37843,37837,37842,37835,37839,111,139,69,37834,37841,37836,37838,37840,37833],"class_list":["post-42288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-elson-li","tag-entertainment","tag-eugene-lee","tag-hang-fa-chuen","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-gag","tag-jojo-wu","tag-karma-lo","tag-lei-yue-mun","tag-ma-wan-village","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-post-photographer","tag-sam-tsang","tag-super-typhoon-ragasa","tag-tai-o","tag-tseung-kwan-o","tag-tseung-kwan-o-cross-bay-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42288","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=42288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}