Spotting an upside-down raft and then searching for its occupants made for a much more eventful afternoon than a group of teenage paddlers near Queenstown had expected. "Ambulance, police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Search and Rescue, the Otago and Queenstown rescue helicopters — quite a few different folk headed to the scene. "It all seemed to resolve itself perfectly fine, but it was a bit dramatic there for a time." They saw the upturned raft and then a woman drifted past in the river. He understood the group was from down south and that the raft tipped over in rapids.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 29, 2020 15:33 UTC