{"id":402215,"date":"2026-09-17T04:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402215\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T04:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:58:13","slug":"tallahassee-66-year-old-dies-after-apparent-medical-emergency-while-scalloping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/402215\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee 66-year-old dies after &#8216;apparent medical emergency&#8217; while scalloping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WAKULLA COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 A Tallahassee 66-year-old has died after an &#8220;apparent medical emergency&#8221; while scalloping, the Wakulla County sheriff&#8217;s office said in a critical incident update Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said the sheriff&#8217;s office received a call about the boater experiencing a medical emergency just after 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FWC officers responded by boat, located the boater, and began lifesaving measures,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said in a post. &#8220;Despite those efforts, a 66-year-old Tallahassee resident was pronounced deceased&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>No further information about the nature of the apparent medical event or the boater&#8217;s identity was provided. <\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAKULLA COUNTY, FL (WTXL) \u2014 A Tallahassee 66-year-old has died after an &#8220;apparent medical emergency&#8221; while scalloping, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[242,509,160043,160044,232,234,233,14151,562],"class_list":["post-402215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-abc-27","tag-big-bend","tag-boater-dies","tag-boater-dies-near-lighthouse","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wakulla-county","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402215","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=402215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}