Surf rescuers are worried more people will get into trouble on a sand bar, which has been whipped up on a Northland beach.
A crab hunter drowned on Uretiti Beach on Christmas Day, as he was setting his pot.
Another eight people had been in trouble at Uretiti in the 24 hours before he drowned, most of them trying to hunt crabs.
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