{"id":647649,"date":"2026-11-01T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647649\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:14:09","slug":"st-leonards-beach-man-dies-after-being-pulled-from-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647649\/","title":{"rendered":"St Leonards Beach: Man dies after being pulled from water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said it responded with one ambulance, a rapid response vehicle and an operations manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">The death comes just three days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland\/big-manly-beach-death-police-identify-man-found-dead-on-whangaparaoa-peninsula\/YC5S6KPGQNHK3KRZIF4MIYDOKM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/auckland\/big-manly-beach-death-police-identify-man-found-dead-on-whangaparaoa-peninsula\/YC5S6KPGQNHK3KRZIF4MIYDOKM\/\">another man was found dead at Big Manly Beach<\/a> on Auckland\u2019s Whangapar\u0101oa Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Police were called to the beach about 12.50pm on Thursday after a member of the public discovered the man\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">The circumstances surrounding that death are still being investigated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">This year is tipped to be one of the worst for water-related deaths, with 71 people drowning since the beginning of 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">That was significantly higher than the average across the last decade and the same time in 2025 (52 deaths recorded in the year-to-date).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said it responded with one ambulance, a rapid response vehicle and an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3952,7972,682,6179,7126,19555,71,317380,5158,111,43,139,529,69,26525,18484,11420,1961,376],"class_list":["post-647649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aucklands","tag-beach","tag-being","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-evening","tag-from","tag-leonards","tag-man","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-pulled","tag-shore","tag-st","tag-this","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647649","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=647649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}