{"id":88195,"date":"2025-10-19T13:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/88195\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:44:16","slug":"one-dead-after-water-rescue-at-port-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/88195\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after water rescue at Port Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4LFX797_Port_Waikato_Township_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"A view of Port Waikato\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA person has died after a boat overturned at Port Waikato on Saturday morning.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/ Nathaniel Smith, CC BY-SA 4.0\n<\/p>\n<p>A person has died in hospital following a water rescue near Port Waikato after a boat overturned on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the death, saying emergency services received reports of three people in the water after the boat overturned north of Sunset Beach around 7:15am.<\/p>\n<p>Police, Surf Life Saving New Zealand and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter all attended.<\/p>\n<p>Police said three people were taken to hospital where one had since died.<\/p>\n<p>One person remained in a serious but stable condition, while the other person was in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has died after a boat overturned at Port Waikato on Saturday morning. Photo: Supplied\/ Nathaniel Smith,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-88195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88195","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=88195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}