{"id":361935,"date":"2026-08-03T22:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361935\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:36:08","slug":"palm-beach-man-helps-rescue-10-after-fort-lauderdale-seaplane-crashes-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361935\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Beach man helps rescue 10 after Fort Lauderdale seaplane crashes in Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">JUPITER, Fla.  \u2014 Nicholas \u201cNick\u201d Pavlakis said he was in the right place at the right time when he helped to rescue 10 people after a seaplane crashed into a seawall on Saturday in the Bahamas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 2014 Cessna 208B Grand Caravan Seaplane operated by Fort Lauderdale-based Tropic Ocean Airways also collided with a dock at about 10 a.m. near a resort in North Bimini. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe heard some panicking people waving, and then we saw the seaplane drifting,\u201d Pavlakis, 30, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/seaplane-crash-bahamian-waters-10-americans-escape-uninjured\/73327463\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/seaplane-crash-bahamian-waters-10-americans-escape-uninjured\/73327463\">told WPBF.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pavlakis, of Palm Beach County, is the general manager of Jupiter-based Marine Max, a boat retail chain for yachting, fishing, and leisure craft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI grabbed the four closest guys I had to me, a couple of locals, a couple of people in our group,\u201d Pavlakis said, adding that a captain on a dinghy also helped. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The group managed to evacuate the seaplane owned by Texas-based FloatSix Leasing before it sank in deep water. The Royal Bahamas Police Force responded. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Kristi Krueger\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/08cba8f5-5303-47ea-9a.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Kristi Krueger<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Kristi Krueger has built a solid reputation as an award-winning medical reporter and effervescent anchor. She joined Local 10 in August 1993 and currently co-anchors the noon, 3 p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. newscasts. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM Updated:\u00a0August 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM JUPITER, Fla. \u2014 Nicholas \u201cNick\u201d Pavlakis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-361935","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\/361935","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=361935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}