{"id":170641,"date":"2025-09-20T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170641\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:12:09","slug":"whale-watching-boat-fills-with-smoke-near-newport-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170641\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale watching boat fills with smoke near newport coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whale watching excursion off the coast near Newport, Oregon took an unexpected turn on Wednesday when the tour vessel began to smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard reported the 62-foot boat was near the Yaquina Bay jetties when the captain made a mayday call, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/coast-guard-rescues-whale-watchers-near-newport#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KOMO News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smoking whale watching boat towed near Newport<\/p>\n<p>Petty Officer 2nd Class Jake Boran said the Coast Guard initially only sent one response boat, but quickly launched a second after learning more about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams arrived to find the vessel filled with smoke, but no visible flames.<\/p>\n<p>The boat was safely towed back to shore by the Coast Guard. Authorities have not yet determined the cause of the smoke. No injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mynorthwest\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mynorthwest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MyNWBreakingNewsEmail-300X250.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MyNWBreakingNewsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whale watching excursion off the coast near Newport, Oregon took an unexpected turn on Wednesday when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2976,2989,2985,79,99,2988,2987,2986,201],"class_list":["post-170641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-home","tag-mynorthwest-com","tag-mynorthwest-com-seattle-news","tag-science","tag-sports","tag-talk-and-community","tag-traffic","tag-weather","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}