{"id":472640,"date":"2026-06-11T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472640\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:11:10","slug":"search-operation-underway-for-man-missing-in-lake-tekapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472640\/","title":{"rendered":"Search operation underway for man missing in Lake Tekapo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed the man came off a bridge on SH8 into Tekapo River in the Mackenzie township.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The man went missing from the SH8 bridge into Tekapo River\/ Lake Tekapo. Photo \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The man went missing from the SH8 bridge into Tekapo River\/ Lake Tekapo. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson with Coastguard\u2019s National Operations Centre told the Herald Coastguard Mackenzie Lakes was called to assist police around 8pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA local Coastguard volunteer with his own private vessel, alongside a Police officer, commenced an initial search ahead of the arrival of four Coastguard Mackenzie Lakes volunteers, who travelled from their base in Twizel with their rescue vessel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Volunteer teams searched under the lights of a supporting rescue helicopter until around 11:15pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur thoughts are with the family of the missing man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">The search was expected to resume this morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police confirmed the man came off a bridge on SH8 into Tekapo River in the Mackenzie township. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1565,10748,2082,78,13207,3120,5158,6501,1304,111,43,139,69,17286,93754,1870,130516,1961,6699,58455],"class_list":["post-472640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-bridge","tag-came","tag-for","tag-in","tag-lake","tag-main","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-resuming","tag-search","tag-tekapo","tag-this","tag-towns","tag-underway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472640","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=472640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}