{"id":233630,"date":"2026-04-16T02:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:21:10","slug":"watch-marine-unit-rescues-passengers-in-a-sinking-boat-in-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233630\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Marine unit rescues passengers in a sinking boat in Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies responded to a call and found the boaters in need of help and taking on water.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Marine units with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/section\/hillsboroughcounty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Hillsborough County<\/a> Sheriff&#8217;s Office rescued two people in a boat that was taking in water and could not move.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, the HCSO marine unit was called to respond to the disabled boat taking on water in the bay, deputies said. The Marine units were able to locate two people in a boat and then brought them safely back to shore.<\/p>\n<p>In body camera footage released by HCSO, deputies are seen in their boat approaching the disabled boat with both people in it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you sinking?&#8221; a deputy asks. &#8220;Yeah,&#8221; a man in the boat replies.<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows a man on the disabled boat explaining that the vessel&#8217;s battery is dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later, deputies from the marine unit are seen tying rope, and subsequently, the HCSO boat is shown towing the disabled boat to a docking area, where the passengers are finally seen walking off their vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies responded to a call and found the boaters in need of help and taking on water. TAMPA,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-233630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233630","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=233630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}