{"id":11160,"date":"2024-08-28T05:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2024-08-28T05:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:25:17","slug":"one-person-missing-from-boat-in-aucklands-manukau-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11160","title":{"rendered":"One person missing from boat in Auckland&#8217;s Manukau Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coastguard has confirmed a search for a person missing from a boat in Auckland&#8217;s Manukau Harbour has finished for the night.<\/p>\n<p>Coastguard said there were two people on a boat that got into difficulty near Puketutu Island on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>One person was able to swim back to shore and alerted police, but the other was still missing.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, Coastguard confirmed that the boat was being towed back to shore and the search had finished for the night.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Do you know more? Email\u00a0<\/i><\/b>iwitness@rnz.co.nz<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed they responded to a distress call just before 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A search was initiated for two people believed to be in the water. One person has been located safe and well and requires no medical attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--ra1TvWIK--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1724746064\/4KKRYPU_Screenshot_128_png?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"One of the helicopters involved in a search over Manukau Harbour in Auckland.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"716\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">A RNZ employee said they could see two helicopters circling the area shortly after 7.30pm on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Screenshot \/ adsbexchange.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Coastguard volunteers on three boats from Titirangi and Papakura were called to the harbour shortly after 6pm on Tuesday. Auckland Airport&#8217;s hovercraft and Westpac Rescue Helicopter also earlier assisted in the search.<\/p>\n<p>A RNZ employee said they could see two helicopters circling the area shortly after 7.30pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coastguard has confirmed a search for a person missing from a boat in Auckland&#8217;s Manukau Harbour has finished for the night. Coastguard said there were two people on a boat that got into difficulty near Puketutu Island on Tuesday. One person was able to swim back to shore and alerted police, but the other was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}