{"id":310041,"date":"2026-06-17T02:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:40:09","slug":"florida-sandbar-strands-3-boaters-saturday-night-sheriffs-marine-unit-rescues-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310041\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sandbar strands 3 boaters Saturday night; sheriff\u2019s marine unit rescues them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA BAY, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 Three boaters needed rescuing after they became stuck on a sandbar in Tampa Bay on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that once the tide receded, its marine unit used an airboat to locate the stranded boaters and bring them back to shore.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/election\/palm-beach-county-voters-get-inside-look-at-election-process-amid-redistricting-changes-ballot-primary-vote-voting-congressional-map-district-lines-june-16-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Palm Beach County voters get inside look at election process amid redistricting changes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputy body camera video shows deputies approaching the vessel. A woman on the boat can be heard saying, \u201cI\u2019m so happy to see you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here. I told you we were coming,\u201d a deputy can be heard saying in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said there were no injuries or damage to the boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Three boaters needed rescuing after they became stuck on a sandbar in Tampa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-310041","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\/310041","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=310041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}