{"id":1023729,"date":"2022-03-16T23:38:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/16\/watch-corgi-falls-overboard-from-yacht-in-florida-swims-7-miles-to-shore\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T23:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:38:40","slug":"watch-corgi-falls-overboard-from-yacht-in-florida-swims-7-miles-to-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/16\/watch-corgi-falls-overboard-from-yacht-in-florida-swims-7-miles-to-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Corgi falls overboard from yacht in Florida, swims 7 miles to shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Corgi-falls-overboard-from-yacht-in-Florida-swims-7-miles-to-shore.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"uY5Vp9Rs_8A\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Corgi swims miles to shore after falling overboard along Indian River\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uY5Vp9Rs_8A?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 16 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A 1-year-old corgi who fell overboard from a yacht on the Indian River in Florida swam 7 miles to shore and turned up in a resident&#8217;s yard.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Atwood said he brought his dog, Jessica, with him when he went to help his mother and stepfather take their 65-foot yacht from Florida to North Carolina for the hurricane season via the Intracoastal Waterway.\n<\/p>\n<p>Atwood said the vessel was passing under the State Road 520 bridge over the Indian River in Brevard County when he noticed Jessica was no longer standing at his feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we couldn&#8217;t locate her, we immediately put two small boats in the water and started canvassing the water to try and find her,&#8221; Atwood told WKMG-TV.<\/p>\n<p>The family couldn&#8217;t locate Jessica anywhere in the nearby waters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prior to Sunday she had never been in the water, so we had no idea if she would even knew how to swim,&#8221; Atwood told the Space Coast Daily.<\/p>\n<p>Atwood continued the search for more than 24 hours before posts about Jessica&#8217;s disappearance on social media led to his being contacted by a resident in Rockledge.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica had apparently swam 7 miles to the Rockledge shore and ended up in the homeowner&#8217;s back yard.\n<\/p>\n<p>Atwood said the homeowner who found Jessica refused a $500 reward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to say thank you. Thank you for caring. Thank you for being kind and thank you for being compassionate,&#8221; Atwood said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 16 (UPI) &#8212; A 1-year-old corgi who fell overboard from a yacht on the Indian River in Florida swam 7 miles to shore and turned up in a resident&#8217;s yard. Jon Atwood said he brought his dog, Jessica, with him when he went to help his mother and stepfather take their 65-foot yacht from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1023730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}