Crewmember rescued at Port of Tampa after being suspended upside down overnight

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies rescued a crewmember of a ship at the Port of Tampa who spent the night suspended upside down by a rope.

On Dec. 7 deputies were told by a ship’s crew that a crewmember had not returned to her ship the night before.

In body camera footage released Tuesday, deputies are seen when they found the woman hanging upside down by her leg from a rope, about 16 feet above the ground…

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