{"id":438860,"date":"2026-05-21T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/438860\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:14:09","slug":"one-person-rescued-after-major-search-for-yacht-that-issued-mayday-in-cook-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/438860\/","title":{"rendered":"One person rescued after major search for yacht that issued mayday in Cook Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">A second person had been taken off the same craft earlier in the day for medical attention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Police, as the lead agency, were working last night with Coastguard and Maritime New Zealand to find the vessel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">A New Zealand Defence Force spokesperson last night said they were also involved in the search and rescue operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCrew on a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A are launching an aerial search while Royal New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Taup\u014d is also in the area after responding to mayday broadcasts earlier this afternoon,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe vessel with one person on board has reported becoming lost while en route to Wellington Harbour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">The Grassroots Trust Rescue Helicopter was also tracked circling the area, while Coastguard said its Wellington team was on standby to help if called upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second person had been taken off the same craft earlier in the day for medical attention. Police,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1558,4194,2082,71,78,18087,661,80140,111,43,139,69,5270,17286,4056,8527,18560,1870,14042,1361,25728,16506],"class_list":["post-438860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-been","tag-cook","tag-for","tag-from","tag-in","tag-issued","tag-major","tag-mayday","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-operation","tag-person","tag-rescue","tag-rescued","tag-search","tag-strait","tag-that","tag-trouble","tag-yacht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438860","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=438860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}