{"id":328867,"date":"2026-07-03T23:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328867\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T23:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:09:11","slug":"8-people-saved-after-boat-overturns-near-sanibel-causeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328867\/","title":{"rendered":"8 people saved after boat overturns near Sanibel Causeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 people saved after boat overturns near Sanibel Causeway<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e61ebd32-1a1a-4bbd-9ca3-2a67f8103004_1769629819.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"James Curtis\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>SANIBEL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said all occupants are accounted for after a boat overturned near the Sanibel Causeway on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Deputies said the boat&#8217;s occupants are &#8220;fine&#8221;, and the call will be turned over to the United States Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">In a Facebook post, the U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Myers Beach said eight lives were saved, including an infant and a child, by their crews.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The Sanibel Fire &amp; Rescue District said they were canceled from the call.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Count on Gulf Coast News to keep you updated.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8 people saved after boat overturns near Sanibel Causeway SANIBEL, Fla. \u2014 The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,123480,123479,121031,88176],"class_list":["post-328867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-streams","tag-us-privacy-notice-term","tag-use-nextfre","tag-wbbh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328867","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=328867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}