{"id":440159,"date":"2026-05-22T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440159\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:54:09","slug":"search-for-missing-whakatane-diver-stood-down-for-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440159\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for missing Whakat\u0101ne diver stood down for evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The diver went missing near the Sugarloaf Rocks at around 1.30pm today. Photo \/ Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The search for a diver missing near Whakat\u0101ne has been called off for the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were notified of a person in distress around Sugarloaf Rocks about 1.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Senior Constable Andrew McCarthy said the search will continue tomorrow morning with the support of Whakat\u0101ne Coastguard, Whakat\u0101ne Surf Lifesaving, and<br \/>\n         the Police National Dive Squad.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice acknowledge the efforts of all partner agencies involved in today\u2019s search and thank them for their ongoing assistance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,1559,25532,6097,19555,2082,6501,3180,111,43,139,2551,69,1870,17218,2240],"class_list":["post-440159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-been","tag-called","tag-diver","tag-down","tag-evening","tag-for","tag-missing","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-search","tag-stood","tag-whakatne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440159","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=440159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}