{"id":9647,"date":"2024-04-29T04:28:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T16:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9647"},"modified":"2024-04-29T04:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T16:28:43","slug":"two-rescued-after-boat-capsizes-while-crossing-manukau-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9647","title":{"rendered":"Two rescued after boat capsizes while crossing Manukau bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been rescued from a boat after it capsized while crossing the Manukau bar in Auckland on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the public alerted the coastguard to the capsized boat just after 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Coastguard&#8217;s air patrol and a police helicopter monitored the situation from above, while Coastguard Waiuku volunteers were sent to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, a person on a jet ski managed to rescue one person.<\/p>\n<p>The Westpac Rescue Helicopter rescued the other person.<\/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--GRExJRre--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1714289032\/4KR03GB_Auckland_Coastguard_Air_Patrol_jpg\" alt=\"Auckland Coastguard Air Patrol.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ Coastguard<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rough sea conditions made it impossible to recover the upturned vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The Coastguard applauded the skipper&#8217;s actions, saying they had logged a trip report and both individuals onboard were wearing lifejackets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The skipper of the capsized vessel did the right thing by logging a bar crossing trip report with our Operations Centre at 1:44 pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Per our protocols, if we hadn&#8217;t heard from them by 2:14 pm, we would have initiated a search and rescue response.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Luckily, a member of the public called us first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Coastguard reminded all boaties about the importance of logging a trip report when crossing a bar, carrying two forms of waterproof communication including an EPIRB and\/or a PLB, and always wearing a lifejacket.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been rescued from a boat after it capsized while crossing the Manukau bar in Auckland on Sunday afternoon. A member of the public alerted the coastguard to the capsized boat just after 2pm. The Coastguard&#8217;s air patrol and a police helicopter monitored the situation from above, while Coastguard Waiuku volunteers were sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647","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=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9649,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions\/9649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}