{"id":485488,"date":"2026-06-19T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/485488\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:48:12","slug":"air-force-plane-finds-fisherman-missing-more-than-a-week-in-northern-cook-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/485488\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force plane finds fisherman missing more than a week in northern Cook Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A solo fisherman missing for a week in the northern Cook Islands has been rescued.<\/p>\n<p>The man, in his four-metre aluminium skiff, was spotted by a crew onboard Royal New Zealand Air Force plane Poseidon on Friday morning, waving at them.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Defence Force said nearby fishing vessels indicated they were able to him up.<\/p>\n<p>The fisherman had set off from Pukapuka Island, more than 1000 kilometres northwest of Rarotonga, for a day&#8217;s fishing on Thursday last week but failed to return.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understood that he had minimal safety or survival equipment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was reported overdue to local police the following day and New Zealand&#8217;s Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre requested RNZAF help in the search earlier this week,&#8221; the NZDF said.<\/p>\n<p>The crew started their search on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A solo fisherman missing for a week in the northern Cook Islands has been rescued. The man, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-485488","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\/485488","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=485488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}