{"id":927229,"date":"2026-10-14T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927229\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:30:10","slug":"coast-guard-frees-entangled-sea-turtle-off-sarasota-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927229\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard frees entangled sea turtle off Sarasota coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">VENICE, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A U.S. Coast Guard Station Cortez crew freed an entangled loggerhead sea turtle Sunday about a mile offshore between Venice Inlet and Big Sarasota Pass, the Coast Guard said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A U.S. Coast Guard Station Cortez crew freed an entangled loggerhead sea turtle Sunday about a...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/L5KP7IRJJZGK3FZV76CKSRAEMY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"607\" \/>A U.S. Coast Guard Station Cortez crew freed an entangled loggerhead sea turtle Sunday about a mile offshore between Venice Inlet and Big Sarasota Pass, the Coast Guard said(US Coast Guard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Reserve and active-duty crew members brought the turtle alongside their boat after boat races ended in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/10\/02\/sea-turtle-nesting-season-nears-end-with-fewer-hatchlings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/10\/02\/sea-turtle-nesting-season-nears-end-with-fewer-hatchlings\/\">Sea turtle nesting season nears end with fewer hatchlings<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They removed an entangling line and released the turtle, according to a social media post from U.S. Coast Guard Southeast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The turtle swam away under its own power, the Coast Gu<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A U.S. Coast Guard Station Cortez crew freed an entangled loggerhead sea turtle Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,494447,494444,494448,494445,128,494446,338],"class_list":["post-927229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-big-sarasota-pass","tag-coast-guard-sea-turtle-rescue","tag-entangled-sea-turtle-rescue","tag-loggerhead-sea-turtle-florida","tag-science","tag-venice-inlet-florida-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}