{"id":117761,"date":"2026-01-14T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117761\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:30:09","slug":"shark-rescued-from-tangled-line-in-florida-swim-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117761\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark rescued from tangled line in Florida swim zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Strange_Florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/Strange_Florida\/\">Florida <\/a>deputies patrolling swim zones helped rescued a shark on Friday that was tangled in a crab trap buoy line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Manatee County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the shark was in distress and contacted staff from Mote Marine Lab, a nonprofit marine research organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cMote staff arrived quickly and were able to safely remove several hooks and pieces of fishing gear from the shark, freeing it from the entanglement,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Strange Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get news of the weird &#8212; Florida style &#8212; sent to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Deputies said the shark was probably hooked by someone who was fishing from the beach and then it became tangled after wrapping the fishing line around the buoy line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said without the help of Mote Marine, the shark likely would not have survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[WATCH BELOW: Pregnant great white shark washes ashore on Florida beach]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Florida deputies patrolling swim zones helped rescued a shark on Friday that was tangled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,7088,2745,2546],"class_list":{"0":"post-117761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-manatee-county","12":"tag-shark","13":"tag-strange-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}