Law enforcement is reminding boaters ahead of Memorial Day weekend to check their equipment, charge their devices and always have a reliable way to call for help.<\/p>\n
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Two men are safe after Hillsborough County deputies found them stranded on the waters of Cockroach Bay in the early morning hours.<\/p>\n
Deputies responded around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday to a disabled white boat after its battery died. The men’s phone died too, making it more difficult to call for emergency responders.<\/p>\n
Footage shows HCSO Aviation units spotting the boat in the water and directing Marine units where to find them.<\/p>\n
Once deputies arrived to the boat, they were able to tow it back to a nearby boat ramp.<\/p>\n
With the Memorial Day weekend approaching, law enforcement is reminding those who may choose to go out on a boat to check their equipment, charge their devices and always have a reliable way to call for help before heading out on the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement is reminding boaters ahead of Memorial Day weekend to check their equipment, charge their devices and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-278515","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\/278515","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=278515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}