{"id":642499,"date":"2026-10-27T05:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642499\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:34:12","slug":"air-coastline-searches-continue-for-missing-auckland-kayaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642499\/","title":{"rendered":"Air, coastline searches continue for missing Auckland kayaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-agency air and sea search will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/10\/26\/air-and-sea-search-for-overdue-kayaker-in-aucklands-manukau-harbour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">continue today<\/a> for a kayaker reported missing from west Auckland over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the coast of Mill Bay around 3pm on Sunday following a report of a man who had been kayaking alone and failed to return to shore.<\/p>\n<p>Waitemat\u0101 West Area Commander Inspector Simon Walker said the man was last seen on a blue and white kayak about 1km offshore between Mill Bay and Manukau Heads.<\/p>\n<p>An extensive search operation was launched including police Eagle helicopter, Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter, coastguard and other vessels. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We searched until dark, however the man was not located,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Search efforts today will focus on aerial and coastline searches in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He thanked agencies that had assisted so far in the search.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged anyone who had seen anything unusual in the water to contact 111. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including Dame Jacinda&#8217;s new job, and why an Australian prisoner&#8217;s lost a legal case over Vegemite.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A multi-agency air and sea search will continue today for a kayaker reported missing from west Auckland over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,273,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-642499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-auckland","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642499","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=642499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}