{"id":381426,"date":"2026-08-26T07:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381426\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:54:24","slug":"florida-keys-charter-fishing-captain-leaves-hospital-after-lightning-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381426\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Keys charter fishing captain leaves hospital after lightning strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Florida Keys fishing captain was released from a hospital on Tuesday, almost a week after he was struck by lightning on his boat in Florida Bay off Islamorada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where paramedics took him after he was struck last Thursday morning, released a photograph of Richard &#8220;Rick&#8221; Stanczyk, 44, surrounded by medical staff before he was discharged Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:READ MORE: Florida Keys charter fishing captain struck by lightning, sheriff&#039;s office says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/florida-keys\/article316950439.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: Florida Keys charter fishing captain struck by lightning, sheriff&#8217;s office says<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His brother, Nick Stanczyk, also a well-known professional Keys angler, posted on Facebook, &#8220;My brother is coming home! Thank you everyone for the support since Thursday!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rick Stanczyk \u2014 who&#8217;s part of a Keys fishing legacy, his family owns the iconic Bud N&#8217; Mary&#8217;s Marina in Islamorada \u2014 took clients out on the flats last week when lightning struck him around 6:30 a.m., according to the Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His brother said in a social-media post this week that one of the clients immediately began CPR after the strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Monroe County&#8217;s Trauma Star helicopter ambulance flew Stanczyk to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where he was treated all week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:READ MORE: &#039;I just lost my best friend.&#039; Man mourns wife, daughter killed by lightning;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/broward\/article316989323.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: &#8216;I just lost my best friend.&#8217; Man mourns wife, daughter killed by lightning<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident was the second lightning strike in South Florida to make headlines in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Sunday, Kenya Glasgow, 31, and her 2-year-old daughter Kennedi were fatally struck by lightning when they walked from their car to the front door of a relative&#8217;s house in Margate, where they were attending a family dinner. Kameron Glasgow \u2014 Kenya&#8217;s husband and Kennedi&#8217;s father \u2014 and Kennedi&#8217;s twin sister Kensli were there when the bolt hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida Keys fishing captain was released from a hospital on Tuesday, almost a week after he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,3876,30,2472,29,26130,2473,90029,153077,807],"class_list":["post-381426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-bay","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-keys","tag-florida-news","tag-hca-florida-kendall-hospital","tag-islamorada","tag-lightning-strike","tag-nick-stanczyk","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381426","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=381426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}