{"id":259379,"date":"2026-05-05T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259379\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:17:07","slug":"deputies-rescue-drifting-boater-in-tampa-bay-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259379\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies rescue drifting boater in Tampa Bay &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Crews came to a man\u2019s rescue over the weekend after his boat malfunctioned and began drifting into dangerous waters in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay deputy marine units received call of a disabled vessel drifting into a commercial shipping channel.<\/p>\n<p>Video captured law enforcement tying a rope to connect the sheriff\u2019s office boat with the disabled vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The boat was then towed to shore and secured to a dock.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Crews came to a man\u2019s rescue over the weekend after his boat malfunctioned and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-259379","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\/259379","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=259379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}