{"id":589129,"date":"2026-09-03T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589129\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:48:10","slug":"multi-agency-operation-rescues-two-from-water-at-canterbury-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589129\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-agency operation rescues two from water at Canterbury beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Two people have been &#8220;successfully recovered&#8221; from the water after being reported missing at Canterbury&#8217;s Waikuku Beach this evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A multiple agency operation was launched around 6.30pm after a report of two people being unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Two people have been successfully recovered from the water by surf lifeguards and an RWC,&#8221; Surf Life Saving NZ said in an update. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police said the pair were &#8220;brought to shore to be checked over by St John&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Hato Hone St John earlier said they were alerted to the incident at 6.31pm and responded with two transporting ambulances, one critical care unit, one operations manager, and a water-rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fire and Emergency NZ confirmed crews from Rangiora and Woodend were also in attendance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Coastguard and Surf Life Saving NZ were providing assistance. Surf Life Saving said it responded with a total of eight lifeguards and two rescue watercraft out on the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been &#8220;successfully recovered&#8221; from the water after being reported missing at Canterbury&#8217;s Waikuku Beach this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-589129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589129","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=589129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}