\u201cDuring this time, the male\u2019s responses were becoming less frequent, raising significant concern for his well-being,\u201d Overton said. <\/p>\n
The locals found the man quickly. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was extremely cold, but otherwise uninjured,\u201d Overton said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a great example of our community reporting information in a timely manner, which potentially led to saving this man\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coastguard and Northern Rescue were also called early in the search, but were not needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was incredibly lucky,\u201d Overton said. <\/p>\n
Police appreciated the public\u2019s willingness to help them.<\/p>\n
The rescue served as a reminder for anyone heading out on the water to be prepared.<\/p>\n
That included testing communications, inspecting vessels, carrying the essentials and having a plan.<\/p>\n
Brodie Stone covers crime and emergency for the Northern Advocate. She has spent most of her life in Whang\u0101rei and is passionate about delving into issues that matter to Northlanders and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDuring this time, the male\u2019s responses were becoming less frequent, raising significant concern for his well-being,\u201d Overton said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,18086,226833,20589,305,27501,5838,98473,152971,424,20829,111,43,139,239494,69,675,8527,17162,12507,239493,1354],"class_list":["post-475343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alerts","tag-cries","tag-harbour","tag-have","tag-heard","tag-help","tag-kayaker","tag-kayakers","tag-life","tag-locals","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-notified","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-rescue","tag-saved","tag-stranded","tag-whangaroa","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475343","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=475343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}