{"id":85150,"date":"2025-10-17T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85150\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:53:08","slug":"three-taken-to-hospital-after-port-waikato-boat-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85150\/","title":{"rendered":"Three taken to hospital after Port Waikato boat accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/94bb7684-3797-4645-a0ee-6ee189470e76.png\" alt=\"Ben Tomsett\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-tomsett\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Tomsett<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist &#8211; Dunedin, NZ Herald\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>17 Oct, 2025 07:38 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Three people have been pulled from the water after a boat capsized at Port Waikato.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police spokesperson said emergency services received reports of three people in the water after a boat overturned, north of Sunset Beach, at around 7.15am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are currently in attendance, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Surf Life Saving<br \/>\n         New Zealand and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter are also involved.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the three people would be taken to hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Tomsett Multimedia Journalist &#8211; Dunedin, NZ Herald\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 17 Oct, 2025 07:38 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,74,1558,5532,58461,71,305,2241,111,43,139,69,384,29268,26525,19554,1529,61,1524,376],"class_list":{"0":"post-85150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-boat","12":"tag-capsized","13":"tag-from","14":"tag-have","15":"tag-hospital","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-people","21":"tag-port","22":"tag-pulled","23":"tag-taken","24":"tag-three","25":"tag-to","26":"tag-waikato","27":"tag-water"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85150","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=85150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}