{"id":365537,"date":"2026-08-07T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365537\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:22:26","slug":"boaters-rescued-after-craft-becomes-disabled-near-sunshine-skyway-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365537\/","title":{"rendered":"Boaters rescued after craft becomes disabled near Sunshine Skyway Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Two people were rescued Thursday when their small boat became disabled near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Coast Guard said they were alerted by the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office of 2 people on a 22-foot disabled boat in heavy rain near the bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A Coast Guard boat from St. Petersburg responded. A crew member assessed the two people on board and blankets due to the cold and wet conditions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hillsborough County Sheriff officers arrived on scene to assist and safely towed the vessel back to a marina. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Two people were rescued Thursday when their small boat became disabled near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4194,723,68308,202,204,203,199,201,200,2484],"class_list":["post-365537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-boaters","tag-rescue","tag-skyway","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-sunshine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365537","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=365537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}