{"id":8664,"date":"2023-12-14T08:07:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2023-12-14T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:07:47","slug":"waiheke-island-capsize-victim-edwin-bains-kumar-waiheke-island-tragedy-leaves-kids-bereft-of-single-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8664","title":{"rendered":"Waiheke Island capsize victim Edwin Bains Kumar: Waiheke Island tragedy leaves kids bereft of single father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Edwin Bains Kumar, 47, from Flatbush, died after the boat he was on overturned<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/waiheke-island-drowning-one-dead-one-rescued-after-boat-capsizes\/5B3CAVYJFFEJHGNOEYYXBIKPDY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0in White\u2019s Bay on Auckland\u2019s Waiheke Island<\/a>\u00a0on December 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His sister, Susan Kumar, said he was the only brother in his family of four siblings and was a \u201cloving son who lived his life to the fullest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He had lived with his parents all his life to look after them and was a real family man, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Susan said a passion for fishing was something the whole family shared, and was passed down by her grandparents. Kumar\u2019s grandfather also died as a result of an accident while fishing at the age of 47.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kumar loved his family over everything else, Susan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Their mother has been left devastated after the death of her only son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe had this attitude like \u2018I can do anything, I can fight the world\u2019,\u201d Susan said<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe had a good strong mind, he was very intelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was a passionate fisherman and went fishing often, Susan said, which is what he was doing when disaster struck. She still does not know what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe went out, I think at 12 o\u2019clock in the day and then we found out at 2 o\u2019clock in the morning that he had passed,\u201d Susan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kumar was with a friend, who escaped the ordeal with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was a mechanic among the other jobs he worked to support his kids and parents before he decided to advance his career by doing auto-technician training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe loved fixing cars that\u2019s what he did, he\u2019s got a Skyline GT-R 95 or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He had graduated the course just two days before he decided to take a friend fishing last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The rescue operation began about 7.20pm, with the Westpac rescue helicopter and police Eagle helicopter standing by as the Trillian Trust Rescue boat plucked two people from the water in Whites Bay, a Coastguard spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maritime NZ has started an investigation into the incident, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__ad-wrapper\" data-test-ui=\"ContentRect3\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"\"><b>Rachel Maher is an Auckland-based reporter who covers breaking news. She has worked for the\u00a0<\/b><i><b>Herald\u00a0<\/b><\/i><b>since 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edwin Bains Kumar, 47, from Flatbush, died after the boat he was on overturned\u00a0in White\u2019s Bay on Auckland\u2019s Waiheke Island\u00a0on December 8. His sister, Susan Kumar, said he was the only brother in his family of four siblings and was a \u201cloving son who lived his life to the fullest\u201d. He had lived with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8664","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\/8664","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=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8666,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions\/8666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}