{"id":399105,"date":"2026-07-15T08:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399105\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:34:28","slug":"san-francisco-boat-sinks-near-alcatraz-island-1-dead-1-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/399105\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Boat Sinks Near Alcatraz Island, 1 Dead, 1 Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          San Francisco Bay<br \/>\n                          Boat Sinks Near Alcatraz Island &#8230;<br \/>\n                          1 Dead, 1 Missing<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              July 14, 2026<br \/>\n                            5:55 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5bc179e91e054fe5bee50815e1bea001_md.jpg\" alt=\"071426_alcatraz_boat_rescue_2310049\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A terrifying boat disaster unfolded in San Francisco Bay Tuesday afternoon &#8230; leaving one person dead, two others missing and sparking a massive rescue operation near Alcatraz Island.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say a pontoon style pleasure boat caught fire shortly after 3:30 PM while cruising between Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge. The vessel ultimately sank, sending everyone on board into the bay.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260715_1a8317ff41ad443b9bcceb9cd6c1b726\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:3ffa2ae2-5651-4458-9861-36c2121a8312\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1a8317ff41ad443b9bcceb9cd6c1b726_md.jpg\" alt=\"Alcatraz island istock\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the San Francisco Fire Department, 19 people were aboard the boat. The officials said 16 people were rescued, while one person was killed and two others remain missing.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260715_191cdf44dffb4f87a8ad7660f1182875\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:3ffa2ae2-5651-4458-9861-36c2121a8312\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/191cdf44dffb4f87a8ad7660f1182875_md.jpg\" alt=\"alcatraz-boat-rescue-1-07-14-2026\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dramatic aerial footage from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/san-francisco-boat-rescue-underway-near-alcatraz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KTVU FOX 2<\/a> showed the boat disappearing beneath the surface as rescue boats raced to the scene. Firefighters, the U.S. Coast Guard and other emergency crews searched the water.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not yet said what caused the fire, and the incident remains under investigation. Rescue crews continued searching Tuesday evening for the two missing passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco Bay Boat Sinks Near Alcatraz Island &#8230; 1 Dead, 1 Missing Published July 14, 2026 5:55&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-399105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}