{"id":401859,"date":"2026-09-16T21:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401859\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T21:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T21:20:32","slug":"66-year-old-tallahassee-boater-dies-after-medical-emergency-while-scalloping-near-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/401859\/","title":{"rendered":"66-year-old Tallahassee boater dies after medical emergency while scalloping near lighthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAINT MARKS, Fla. &#8212; A 66-year-old Tallahassee man died after suffering an apparent medical emergency while scalloping near the historic St. Marks lighthouse, according to an update from Chief of Staff Billy Jones.<\/p>\n<p>At about 10:04 this morning, the Wakulla Sheriff&#8217;s Communications Center received a call about a boater in distress. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers responded by boat, found the boater and began lifesaving measures, but the man was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff&#8217;s office says family notifications have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office is working with FWC, and the investigation remains ongoing. Additional information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAINT MARKS, Fla. &#8212; A 66-year-old Tallahassee man died after suffering an apparent medical emergency while scalloping near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-401859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401859","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=401859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}