{"id":227032,"date":"2026-04-11T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227032\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:18:07","slug":"search-underway-for-swimmer-who-went-missing-off-sanibel-coast-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227032\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway for swimmer who went missing off Sanibel coast | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANIBEL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Authorities are searching for a missing swimmer off the coast of Bowman&#8217;s Beach.<\/p>\n<p>The missing person swam about a half-mile away from shore and has not returned, according to initial reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed multiple agencies are responding to the incident. WINK News is headed to the scene to gather more information.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANIBEL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Authorities are searching for a missing swimmer off the coast of Bowman&#8217;s Beach. The missing person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":{"0":"post-227032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-collaborator_gen_stories","12":"tag-lee","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227032","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=227032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}