{"id":578329,"date":"2026-08-24T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578329\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T01:06:09","slug":"whale-watching-boat-carrying-nz-anglican-church-delegates-capsizes-in-tonga-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578329\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale-watching boat carrying NZ Anglican Church delegates capsizes in Tonga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaya Selby<\/p>\n<p>RNZ\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>23 Aug, 2026 11:48 PMQuick 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\">RNZ Pacific understands that several passengers were briefly hospitalised. Photo \/ 123rf<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A whale-watching boat carrying several New Zealand Anglican Church delegates capsized and sank in Tonga on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">RNZ Pacific understands several passengers were briefly hospitalised, but there were no serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Paramedics from New South Wales, who were in the country<br \/>\n         for a Rotary International training event, led the rescue.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBefore leaving, the Bishops, Chaplains and leaders of the group led a prayer, thanking and blessing the team for the help and support they had provided,\u201d a Rotary statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaya Selby RNZ\u00b7 23 Aug, 2026 11:48 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[185117,5532,127406,1875,12897,284860,78,149194,111,43,139,69,149195,53476,284859],"class_list":["post-578329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-anglican","tag-boat","tag-capsizes","tag-carrying","tag-church","tag-delegates","tag-in","tag-kaya","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-selby","tag-tonga","tag-whalewatching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578329","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=578329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}