{"id":374641,"date":"2026-08-18T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374641\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:26:15","slug":"coast-guard-rescues-diver-west-of-st-petersburg-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374641\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard rescues diver west of St. Petersburg Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. PETERSBURG BEACH, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater helicopter crew rescued a diver experiencing a medical emergency about 85 miles west of St. Petersburg Beach on Saturday, according to the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The helicopter crew arrived at the scene and hoisted the man aboard.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/T5MOXFPYKJGMFLZNZVXTR3BGLE.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1307\" \/>The helicopter crew arrived at the scene and hoisted the man aboard.(US Coast Guard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The helicopter crew arrived at the scene and hoisted the man aboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/13\/woman-crisis-rescued-gulf-venice-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/13\/woman-crisis-rescued-gulf-venice-police-say\/\">Woman \u2018in crisis\u2019 rescued from Gulf, Venice police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was then flown to Gulf Coast Medical Center for medical care.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The helicopter crew arrived at the scene and hoisted the man aboard.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GEXRQ77PDFG7RGPW4Y7KWEVAXQ.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>The helicopter crew arrived at the scene and hoisted the man aboard.(US Coast Guard)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Coast Guard did not release details about the diver\u2019s condition, the nature of the emergency or the vessel involved.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG BEACH, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater helicopter crew rescued a diver experiencing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[151142,151141,33556,151144,202,204,203,199,151143,201,200],"class_list":["post-374641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-air-station-clearwater","tag-coast-guard-rescue","tag-gulf-coast-medical-center","tag-helicopter-hoist-rescue","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-beach-diver","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374641","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=374641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}