A rahui barring fishing or collecting seafood along the Doubtless Bay coast has been extended by a month because a diver missing at Cable Bay has yet to be found.
Rangi Tapu, 25, of Auckland, went missing while diving for kina about 50m offshore last Thursday. As of yesterday he had not been found, despite extensive searches by police, family members, Far North Land Search and Rescue, Coastguard and firefighters. Members of the Police National Dive Squad also conducted a grid search of the sea floor on Friday.
The official search ended on Friday night but the family's beachside vigil is continuing.
A rahui placed on the coast between Mangonui and Taipa by Ngati Kahu kaumatua on Friday has now been extended a month.
Anahera Herbert-Graves, chief executive of Te Runanga-a-Iwi o Ngati Kahu, asked the public to abide by tikanga by not catching fish or taking seafood from the area.