{"id":629401,"date":"2026-10-13T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629401\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:48:27","slug":"kiribati-trio-rescued-after-days-at-sea-by-nz-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629401\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiribati trio rescued after days at sea by NZ Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people on board a small boat have been rescued by a Royal NZ Air Force crew after being missing for four days at sea off Kiribati.<\/p>\n<p>The trio from Kiribati were found on board a 3.7m white fibreglass boat on Sunday after being missing since October 7, the New Zealand Defence Force said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a-vessel-coming-to-the-rescue-of-three-people-in-a-small-boa-EHR3JVVBUJAB7MQ3OJMPUDRLW4.jpg\" alt=\"A vessel coming to the rescue of three people in a small boat off Kiribati. (Source: NZDF)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A vessel coming to the rescue of three people in a small boat off Kiribati. (Source: NZDF) (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Their vessel had gone missing between Abaiang Island and the Kiribati capital of Tarawa.<\/p>\n<p>After finding the boat, the P-8A Poseidon crew maintained watch while the group were taken to safety on a vessel responding to the search and rescue mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people on board a small boat have been rescued by a Royal NZ Air Force crew after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1403,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-629401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-defence","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629401","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=629401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}