{"id":588863,"date":"2026-09-03T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588863\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:28:12","slug":"waikuku-beach-search-two-people-brought-ashore-after-water-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588863\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikuku Beach search: Two people brought ashore after water rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Police were called to Waikuku Beach this evening after two people were reported unaccounted for. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n

Emergency services have found two people who went missing at a Canterbury beach this evening.<\/p>\n

Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand and Coastguard NZ were called to Waikuku Beach, about 30km north of Christchurch, about 6.30pm.<\/p>\n

\n Surf Life Saving New Zealand was tasked with helping the search shortly afterwards and
\n responded with eight surf lifeguards and two jet skis.\n <\/p>\n

The Westpac Rescue Helicopter also joined the search, landing at the domain in the small beach settlement.<\/p>\n

Surf lifeguards found the pair in the water and brought them ashore by jet ski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,58463,7972,11783,8126,15974,19555,1874,305,6501,111,43,139,69,384,8527,1870,1321,1961,1237,164325,376,2201],"class_list":["post-588863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-ashore","tag-beach","tag-brought","tag-canterbury","tag-emergency","tag-evening","tag-found","tag-have","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-rescue","tag-search","tag-services","tag-this","tag-two","tag-waikuku","tag-water","tag-went"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588863","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=588863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}