{"id":232221,"date":"2026-06-30T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232221\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:08:12","slug":"one-dead-in-boating-incident-off-erie-bluffs-state-park-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232221\/","title":{"rendered":"One Dead in Boating Incident off Erie Bluffs State Park | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"boat death.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>One man is dead after a boat began taking on water just miles from Erie Bluffs State Park.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened shortly before 8 a.m. June 30, a few miles offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Five men were on board when the vessel started filling with water. Four made it safely to the surface, but David Rodgers, 63, of Chicora, Butler County, did not.<\/p>\n<p>He was later found and pronounced dead around 9:10 a.m. at UPMC Hamot.<\/p>\n<p>Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook ruled the death accidental, caused by drowning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man is dead after a boat began taking on water just miles from Erie Bluffs State Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[41305,100404,3418,136,18506,138,137,1246],"class_list":["post-232221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-accidental-death","tag-boating-accident","tag-drowning","tag-erie","tag-erie-bluffs-state-park","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fatality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}