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Molasses Reef is a popular scuba diving and snorkeling location with numerous dive sites marked by mooring buoys. One notable site is at buoy #7 and is variously referred to as the Winch Hole , Windlass Wreck , or The Winch .
A man died Wednesday while scuba diving at a popular shipwreck site, the third tragedy this month in Florida Keys waters. The tragedy happened two days after the U.S. Coast Guard called off a ...
A rescue boat is at the scene of the boat wreck in Biscayne Bay off North Key Largo on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. The 29-foot Robalo hit a channel marker and hurled everyone aboard into the water.
This category is for deaths that occurred as a direct result of underwater diving, and those occurring from non-diving causes when the individual was involved in this activity. For deaths caused by diving in the sense of jumping into water, see Category:Diving deaths.
A steamship that ran aground off Key Largo. [1] [16] USS Coco United States Navy: 9 September 1919 A patrol vessel that was wrecked at Key West in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane. USS Curb United States Navy: 23 November 1983 A Diver-class rescue and salvage ship that sank off Key West as an artificial reef in 185 fsw. [1] [14] USCGC Duane
David Pleace, 57, died while scuba diving to a shipwreck in Scotland after part of his equipment disconnected. Scuba diver’s death preventable if equipment was properly checked, coroner says ...
Diving fatality data published in Diving Medicine for Scuba Divers (2015) [3] 90% died with their weight belt on. 86% were alone when they died (either diving solo or separated from their buddy). 80% were men. 50% did not inflate their buoyancy compensator. 25% first got into difficulty on the surface; 50% died on the surface.
The Johnson Sea Link was the successor to Edwin Link's previous submersible, Deep Diver, the first small submersible designed for lockout diving.In 1968 the Bureau of Ships determined that Deep Diver was unsafe for use at great depths or in extremely cold temperatures because of the substitution of the wrong kind of steel, which became brittle in cold water, in some parts of the submersible. [6]