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Taupo police were kept busy with at least three water-based callouts on Tuesday, including the sudden death of a man at Lake Taupo.
The 52-year-old Palmerston North man collapsed in the water at the main lakefront beach about 2pm and could not be revived.
He was holidaying in Taupo with his family, police say.
The cause of his death was unknown, and his name had not yet been released.
Earlier on Tuesday, police responded to a callout at Reid's Farm on the Waikato River near Taupo after a kayaker tipped out of his boat, injuring his shoulder, shortly before 10am.
The coastguard found the man sitting on a rock in the middle of the river with a dislocated shoulder.
He was taken to the riverbank where St John's paramedics attended to his injury.
Police were called to Lake Taupo again at about 4.15pm after a yacht capsized near Acacia Bay.
The coastguard found a young man clinging to his upturned 10-foot yacht.
The uninjured man was taken to shore and his yacht was towed to the beach.
