{"id":414509,"date":"2026-09-30T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414509\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:38:37","slug":"body-pulled-from-water-near-wekiwa-springs-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414509\/","title":{"rendered":"Body pulled from water near Wekiwa Springs State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ht22z9jmvkbcb4nv.jpg\" alt=\"Body pulled from water near Wekiwa Springs State Park\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ht22z9jmvkbcb4nv.jpg\" alt=\"Body pulled from water near Wekiwa Springs State Park\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-a3924c54=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">LONGWOOD, Fla. &#8211; A swimmer died Monday evening after going underwater and not resurfacing near Wekiwa Springs State Park, according to Seminole County Fire Rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Rescue crews recover body <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The call for a possible drowning came in just before 7:15 p.m. near Wekiwa Springs State Park.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wofl-wekiwa-island-drowning3.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">A swimmer died Monday evening after going underwater and not resurfacing near Wekiwa Springs State Park, according to Seminole County Fire Rescue.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Witnesses said they saw the swimmer disappear beneath the water and immediately ran to get help. Rescue crews later recovered the man&#8217;s body from the water.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/wofl-wekiwa-island-drowning4.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">A swimmer died Monday evening after going underwater and not resurfacing near Wekiwa Springs State Park, according to Seminole County Fire Rescue.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Two witnesses who recorded the emergency response said they hope the tragedy reminds visitors to stay alert around the water.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">They urged swimmers and families to pay attention not only to their own group but also to others nearby and to act quickly if someone appears to be in trouble. Pasted text<\/p>\n<p> Investigation continues <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officials have not released the victim&#8217;s identity or additional details about what led to the drowning.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written based on information shared by Seminole County Fire Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/seminole-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seminole County News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/seminole-county\/longwood\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Longwood<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONGWOOD, Fla. &#8211; A swimmer died Monday evening after going underwater and not resurfacing near Wekiwa Springs State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[630,47,3573,115,139,141,140,1014,628],"class_list":["post-414509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-longwood","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-seminole-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414509","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=414509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}