Five people have been pulled from the water after a boat sank near a mussel farm off Ponui Island, east of Auckland, this evening.<\/p>\n
Police and Coastguard were alerted to the sinking at around 5.30pm on Sunday,<\/p>\n
Coastguard sent Coastguard Maraetai, Westpac Rescue sent Northern Rescue 1 and police deployed the Eagle helicopter to search the area.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson said the helicopter crew found the group.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe crew spotted five people in the water and alerted a nearby boat, that came to assist.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Coastguard spokesperson said the rescue had been split between the two boats.<\/p>\n
\u201cA nearby boat was able to rescue three people from the water. Coastguard rescued the other two.\u201d<\/p>\n
One person had been treated for hypothermia after being pulled from the water, and police said paramedics had seen one person.<\/p>\n
All five were taken ashore at Kawakawa Bay.<\/p>\n
Ponui Island sits in the Hauraki Gulf, south-east of Waiheke Island and just off the coast from Kawakawa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people have been pulled from the water after a boat sank near a mussel farm off Ponui…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-640697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640697","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=640697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}