{"id":346308,"date":"2026-07-20T18:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346308\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:34:21","slug":"large-yacht-smashes-into-fort-lauderdale-dock-city-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346308\/","title":{"rendered":"Large yacht smashes into Fort Lauderdale dock, city says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An area near a <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/miami\/fort-lauderdale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fort Lauderdale<\/a> stormwater pump station was shut down Monday morning after city officials said a large yacht crashed into a dock.<\/p>\n<p>The city government said the yacht hit the city&#8217;s dock, located at the station along North New River Drive, causing significant damage to the dock and its support pilings. City officials said the impact also damaged the station&#8217;s roof.<\/p>\n<p>The impact was captured on video, showing two other smaller boats trailing alongside the vessel as it hit the dock.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-20-134508.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-07-20-134508.png \" height=\"328\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The aftermath of the yacht crash in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, taken on July 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Mobile Mike<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale city officials said more assessments are underway, including an evaluation by a structural engineer, to determine if the impact caused structural damage to the station itself or the seawall below the waterline.<\/p>\n<p>The city has filed a report with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department&#8217;s Marine Unit. The U.S. Coast Guard has also been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An area near a Fort Lauderdale stormwater pump station was shut down Monday morning after city officials said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-346308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346308","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=346308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}