{"id":441437,"date":"2026-05-23T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441437\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:09:09","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-diver-who-went-missing-in-whakatane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441437\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for diver who went missing in Whakat\u0101ne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">The exact circumstances have not been made public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Despite efforts to find the person involved, the search was called off yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Police acknowledged those who helped in the search, including Coastguard Whakat\u0101ne volunteers, Whakat\u0101ne Surf Lifesaving and the Police National Dive Squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exact circumstances have not been made public. Despite efforts to find the person involved, the search was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,7800,25532,2082,1874,78,6501,111,43,139,69,1870,2201,2240,1299],"class_list":["post-441437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-been","tag-body","tag-diver","tag-for","tag-found","tag-in","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-search","tag-went","tag-whakatne","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441437","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=441437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441437\/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=441437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}