{"id":434792,"date":"2026-10-22T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434792\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:44:09","slug":"coast-guard-helps-2-boaters-after-vessel-takes-on-water-near-cape-coral-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/434792\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard helps 2 boaters after vessel takes on water near Cape Coral Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792673049_543_60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">On Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard assisted two boaters after their vessel started taking on water near the Cape Coral Bridge.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">A dewatering pump was used, and crews worked with the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and fire crews to dewater the vessel.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">A commercial towing company transported the boaters and their vessel back to the owner&#8217;s residence.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 On Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard assisted two boaters after their vessel started taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1185,4621,209,4609,211,210,1993,3582,2344,104,213,7692,8075,6551,197,31594,4103,221],"class_list":["post-434792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-alert","tag-boater","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-bridge","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-coast-guard","tag-crew","tag-download","tag-entertainment","tag-late-news","tag-lee-county-sheriff","tag-owner","tag-residence","tag-sport","tag-vessel","tag-water","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434792","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=434792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}