{"id":429937,"date":"2026-05-16T02:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429937\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T02:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:22:09","slug":"kayaker-dies-after-suffering-medical-event-off-aucklands-hobsonville-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/429937\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayaker dies after suffering medical event off Auckland&#8217;s Hobsonville Marina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died after suffering a medical event while kayaking in Auckland on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police were notified of the incident near the Hobsonville Marina shortly before 9.15am.<\/p>\n<p>They said the man was assisted onto a different boat, where he was given medical assistance, but he did not survive.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it sent one ambulance, one rapid response unit and one helicopter to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were not required for transportation, it said.<\/p>\n<p>A witness told RNZ there were two other kayakers in the area, and believed the deceased might have been with them.<\/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":"A man has died after suffering a medical event while kayaking in Auckland on Saturday morning. Police were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429938,"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-429937","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\/429937","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=429937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}