{"id":209841,"date":"2026-03-28T18:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:56:06","slug":"one-dead-in-nixon-beach-vessel-accident-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209841\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead in Nixon Beach vessel accident | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (<a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FWC<\/a>) confirmed one person has died following a Saturday morning vessel accident in Biscayne Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred north of the Nixon Beach sandbar, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>During the emergency response, traffic lanes were modified to allow emergency and police vehicles through the area.<\/p>\n<p>FWC officers responded to reports of an accident in which two adults \u2014 a man and a woman \u2014 were ejected from an undisclosed watercraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamidade.gov\/global\/fire\/home.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue<\/a> crews recovered both victims from the water and transported them to a local hospital for treatment. The female victim later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Some Key Biscayne residents contacted Islander News after seeing a helicopter and multiple emergency vehicles near Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park. <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/law-enforcement\/regions\/south-b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FWC Public Informatio<\/a>n Officer George Reynaud said rescue operations may begin or end at a safe location where boats can be deployed.<\/p>\n<p>Reynaud described the situation as \u201ca very active scene\u201d as of 11:30 a.m., but said authorities could not confirm whether a boat or Jet Ski was involved.<\/p>\n<p>A witness inside the park told Islander News that FWC vessels were entering No Name Harbor slowly during the response.<\/p>\n<p>This remains an open investigation. No additional information is currently available.<\/p>\n<p>A full report will be available and we will update the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) confirmed one person has died following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[96179,96173,96175,96177,126,96176,123,125,124,96181,96178,96180,96174],"class_list":["post-209841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-bill-baggs-park-emergency","tag-biscayne-bay-vessel-accident","tag-emeregencia-en-el-fatiro","tag-fwc-investigation-biscayne-bay","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-boating-accident","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-fire-rescue-biscayne-bay","tag-nixon-beach-sandbar-accident","tag-no-name-harbor-fwc-response","tag-saturday-morning-emergency-at-bill-baggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209841","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=209841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}