The woman who was found unresponsive Thursday afternoon while snorkeling off Key West died at the hospital, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. Jessica Murray, 44, was found around 12:30 p.m. and was brought to shore by members of the U.S. Coast Guard. She was taken to the Lower…
Community members and their local fire department gathered over the weekend to honor a Plantation after his diving death in the Florida Keys. Community members and their local fire department gathered over the weekend to honor a Plantation 17-year-old, who had dreamed of becoming a firefighter, after his diving death…
A 17-year-old teenager died over the weekend while diving using a hookah rig in the Florida Keys, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. The boy, later identified as Cameron Isaiah Ruwe, was diving with several others on Saturday using a hookah rig — a type of diving that uses…
The family of an 8-year-old boy from Pinecrest, Florida, who was attacked by a shark while snorkeling near Key Largo said he is getting stronger each day. The boy, identified as Richard Burrows, was snorkeling with his father, David, and 10-year-old sister, Rose, around 3:24 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 1.…
A man tragically drowned Sunday while fishing with at least one other person on lake Damon in Avon Park, about 75 miles south from Orlando. Chase Winton Parrish, 29, was identified as the fisherman who died, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. Parrish was with one other man, whose…
Emilie Kiser, the well-known social media and lifestyle influencer, has released a public statement, the first since her 3-year-old son, Trigg, drowned in the family’s backyard pool. “Loss of this magnitude feels impossible to put into words,” Kiser said in a statement to her nearly 2 million Instagram followers. “I’ve…
Two men in their 20s drowned in a Florida river this week after jumping into the water to “retrieve an object,” according to reporting from local media Wednesday. The men — 20-year-old Wilbert Rivera Cifuentes and 21-year-old Deyfri Roblero Morales — were in a group of about five or six…
About 5 million aboveground pools have been recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission following the deaths of at least nine toddlers since 2002. The CPSC officially recalled the pools due to a compression strap surrounding the exterior of the pool legs that could create a “foothold, allowing a…
An 81-year-old died Monday while with a commercial diving crew in the Florida Keys, according to local media. Stephen Edward Plopper, of Carmel, Indiana, was swimming with a commercial dive boating around Sand Key Lighthouse off of Key West when members of the crew with the boat noticed him unresponsive…
A Martin County family is grieving the loss of their 1-year-old daughter after she died in a tragic pool drowning incident in Jensen Beach. The infant was under the care of a grandparent who lost track of the her and called 911. While on the phone, dispatchers asked the grandparent…
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