{"id":442474,"date":"2026-05-24T03:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/442474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:36:15","slug":"sunlive-body-found-in-search-for-diver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/442474\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Body found in search for diver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A body has been found in the search for a diver who went missing in Whakat\u0101ne.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the person was found about 9am on Saturday near the Whakat\u0101ne River entrance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice are providing the necessary support to the diver\u2019s family and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/search-for-missing-whakatane-diver-stood-down-for-evening\/EI2AYT42NVAMBNS2Q4JYZPMBY4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/search-for-missing-whakatane-diver-stood-down-for-evening\/EI2AYT42NVAMBNS2Q4JYZPMBY4\/\">were called to the area Friday afternoon<\/a>\u00a0after a person was said to be in distress near Sugarloaf Rocks about 1.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The exact circumstances have not been made public.<\/p>\n<p>Despite efforts to find the person involved, the search was called off Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>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>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body has been found in the search for a diver who went missing in Whakat\u0101ne. Police confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-442474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442474","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=442474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}