{"id":337630,"date":"2026-07-12T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337630\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:04:14","slug":"search-underway-after-man-disappears-while-swimming-off-huguenot-park-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337630\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway after man disappears while swimming off Huguenot Park in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A search is underway after a man disappeared while swimming in the ocean Saturday afternoon at Huguenot Park, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">JSO said patrol officers responded to the park along Heckscher Drive around 4:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a drowning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to investigators, three adults were swimming in the ocean when they began struggling against an undertow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bystanders were able to rescue two of the swimmers, but the third swimmer, a man, went underwater and did not resurface, JSO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The U.S. Coast Guard and the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office Marine Unit, Dive Team, Homicide Unit and Crime Scene Unit responded and are actively conducting search and investigative efforts,&#8221; JSO said in a release Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search is underway after a man disappeared while swimming in the ocean Saturday afternoon at Huguenot Park,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[138966,116,118,117,45740,1872],"class_list":["post-337630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-huguenot-park","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-sheriff39s-office","tag-jso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337630","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=337630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}