24 Apr 2025

Cave Creek disaster victims remembered 30 years on

From Checkpoint, 5:30 pm on 24 April 2025

It has been three decades since thirteen Tai Poutini Polytechnic students and a DOC worker died when a poorly-constructed viewing platform collapsed at Cave Creek, on the West Coast. A private memorial will be held for families on the coast on the anniversary next Monday, with students from that year gathering on the coast for a reunion, this weekend. This report from Samantha Gee begins with coverage from the time of the disaster.