{"id":214063,"date":"2026-04-01T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214063\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:22:11","slug":"missing-paddleboarder-found-dead-near-courtney-campbell-causeway-tampa-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214063\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Paddleboarder Found Dead Near Courtney Campbell Causeway: Tampa Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FL \u2014 The body of a missing paddleboarder was found in Old Tampa Bay near the Courtney Campbell Causeway on Monday around noon, Tampa police said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Police were notified about the missing man by his family on Sunday, just after 9 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>His family said his last known location was paddleboarding near the 7700 block of W. Courtney Campbell Causeway around on Saturday around 4 p.m., police said. <\/p>\n<p>Once conditions and visibility on the water improved, Tampa police specialty units and partner agencies started a search-and-rescue operation in the area immediately on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Around 11 a.m., members of the Tampa Police Department\u2019s Marine Unit found the man\u2019s paddleboard and other property on the west side of Old Tampa Bay, police said. <\/p>\n<p>His body was found by the Courtney Campbell Causeway bridge an hour later. <\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FL \u2014 The body of a missing paddleboarder was found in Old Tampa Bay near the Courtney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-214063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-tampa","9":"tag-tampa-headlines","10":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214063","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=214063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}