{"id":486721,"date":"2026-01-02T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T08:49:13","slug":"emergency-services-rush-to-dreamworld-theme-park-over-drowning-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486721\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency services rush to Dreamworld theme park over drowning fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-841\/zak-wheeler.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZAK WHEELER, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  01:21 EST, 2 January 2026   |  Updated:  03:14 EST, 2 January 2026   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Paramedics have saved the life of a tourist who narrowly avoided drowning at a popular water park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Emergency services were called to\u00a0WhiteWater World, in the <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/gold-coast\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8c15ade0-e7a0-11f0-a05f-3db29337bb76\" rel=\"noopener\">Gold Coast<\/a>, after receiving reports of a &#8216;post-immersion incident&#8217; around 2pm on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">There they found the tourist, who has not been identified, in a\u00a0life-threatening condition before being pulled out of the park&#8217;s Cave of Waves pool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The patient,\u00a0aged in their 30s, was initially assessed at the scene before being rushed to\u00a0Gold Coast University Hospital for further testing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Dreamworld, which owns\u00a0WhiteWater World, thanked its lifeguards for helping to save the park guest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Our highly trained lifeguards responded immediately, and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/queensland\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8c164a20-e7a0-11f0-a05f-3db29337bb76\" rel=\"noopener\">Queensland<\/a> Ambulance Service attended the scene promptly,&#8217; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The safety and wellbeing of our guests and team members is our highest priority, and we are assisting emergency services as required.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-52dedbd1b81c6eb1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/105169925-15428273-image-a-9_1767333545032.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"A tourist aged in their 30s has been saved after a near-drowning incident at WhiteWater World, in the Gold Coast, on Friday\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">A tourist aged in their 30s has been saved after a near-drowning incident at WhiteWater World, in the Gold Coast, on Friday<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Emergency services rush to Dreamworld theme park over drowning fears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ZAK WHEELER, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 01:21 EST, 2 January 2026 | Updated: 03:14 EST, 2 January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,211,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-486721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115824647627642099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}