{"id":641651,"date":"2026-10-26T09:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641651\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:10:10","slug":"manukau-harbour-search-kayaker-reported-missing-after-not-returning-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641651\/","title":{"rendered":"Manukau Harbour search: Kayaker reported missing after not returning home"},"content":{"rendered":"
Volunteers from Coastguard Titirangi and Coastguard Waiuku responded with multiple rescue vessels.<\/p>\n
Police are still searching for a missing kayaker. Photo \/ Coastguard New Zealand<\/p>\n
Volunteer crews searched the water and shoreline, covering the harbour entrance, the West Channel and areas east towards Cornwallis and the Papakura Channel.<\/p>\n
In calm and sunny conditions, three rescue vessels, two helicopters and a hovercraft searched a large area of the harbour for about three hours, Coastguard said.<\/p>\n
Coastguard crews ended their search shortly before 6pm and returned to base, but said volunteers were prepared to assist again if required.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts are with the kayaker\u2019s wh\u0101nau at this worrying time,\u201d a Coastguard spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Police said the search would continue while there was sufficient daylight to do so safely.<\/p>\n
Officers remained in contact with the kayaker\u2019s family during what police described as an uncertain time.<\/p>\n
Anyone who notices anything unusual in the Manukau Harbour area is asked to call 111 and quote event number P068059730.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers from Coastguard Titirangi and Coastguard Waiuku responded with multiple rescue vessels. Police are still searching for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3952,6261,20589,1345,98473,661,57533,6501,3180,111,43,139,5006,69,59265,15267,13382,1870,58455],"class_list":["post-641651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aucklands","tag-entrance","tag-harbour","tag-home","tag-kayaker","tag-major","tag-manukau","tag-missing","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-not","tag-nz","tag-overdue","tag-reported","tag-returning","tag-search","tag-underway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641651","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=641651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}