{"id":393961,"date":"2026-09-08T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393961\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:34:08","slug":"deputies-help-remove-dead-manatee-from-ben-t-davis-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393961\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputies help remove dead manatee from Ben T. Davis Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Hillsborough County sheriff\u2019s marine deputies responded Sunday morning to a report of a dead manatee off Ben T. Davis Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies met with a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission marine biologist, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/28\/piebald-lemon-shark-spotted-near-anna-maria-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/08\/28\/piebald-lemon-shark-spotted-near-anna-maria-island\/\">Piebald lemon shark spotted near Anna Maria Island<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The deputies towed the manatee away from the beach and swimmers so FWC could investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agency has not released a potential cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Hillsborough County sheriff\u2019s marine deputies responded Sunday morning to a report of a dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[157210,157212,157211,157209,18311,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-393961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-ben-t-davis-beach","tag-dead-manatee-tampa","tag-fwc-manatee-investigation","tag-hillsborough-county-manatee","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriffs-office","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393961","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=393961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}