{"id":92366,"date":"2025-12-22T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92366\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:24:07","slug":"search-underway-off-florida-coast-for-2-boaters-who-went-missing-during-fishing-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92366\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway off Florida coast for 2 boaters who went missing during fishing trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Two men went missing during a fishing trip off Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast, according to deputies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, 57-year-old Randall Spivey and 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier were reported missing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Spivey, who is an attorney in Fort Myers, and his nephew left Friday morning on a 42-foot Freeman boat from a home in the 15000 block of Intracoastal Court in Fort Myers, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/authorities-continue-search-for-2-missing-boaters-off-southwest-florida-coast\/article_868d9e3b-17eb-4075-9c90-a92b60538d83.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/authorities-continue-search-for-2-missing-boaters-off-southwest-florida-coast\/article_868d9e3b-17eb-4075-9c90-a92b60538d83.html\">WINK News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching over the weekend for the duo 70 miles off the Fort Myers coast. The search is expected to continue Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Anyone with information is asked to call the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 239-477-1000 or SWFL Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Two men went missing during a fishing trip off Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,356,3428],"class_list":{"0":"post-92366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-fort-myers","13":"tag-lee-county","14":"tag-missing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92366","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=92366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}