{"id":444480,"date":"2026-05-25T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444480\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:27:14","slug":"appeal-for-information-after-diver-dies-at-whakatane-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/444480\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for information after diver dies at Whakat\u0101ne Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>25 May, 2026 02:48 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<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\">Whakat\u0101ne Heads, taken from a lookout above the Bay of Plenty township.  Photo \/ File<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are seeking information after a diver\u2019s death at Whakat\u0101ne Heads over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/381407-body-found-in-search-for-diver.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sunlive.co.nz\/news\/381407-body-found-in-search-for-diver.html\">man\u2019s body was found<\/a> near the Whakat\u0101ne River entrance about 9am on Saturday, after concerns were raised when he failed to return on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Acting Sergeant Renine Stansloski said the<br \/>\n         diver had arrived at Whakat\u0101ne Heads with a friend about 11am on Friday, May 23.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTwo other males were seen sitting on the rocks with the diver and his friend before the diver entered the water,\u201d Stansloski said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs part of our routine enquiries into the diver\u2019s death, we are keen to speak to these two other males.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 25 May, 2026 02:48 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,6375,1975,634,7126,25532,141028,2082,7799,15415,111,43,139,69,1523,675,40249,4767,2240],"class_list":["post-444480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-appeal","tag-at","tag-death","tag-dies","tag-diver","tag-divers","tag-for","tag-heads","tag-information","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-police","tag-seeking","tag-weekend","tag-whakatne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444480","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=444480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}