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Teams searching for missing diver in Florida discover body of a different man (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] Steve@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Thats Florida for ya

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

"Oh that would be some fuckin' coincidence!"

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Search teams looking for a missing diver off the Florida coast recovered the lifeless body of a different man, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office said.

Teams were combing the waters after a West Palm Beach resident went missing Sunday while freediving when they discovered the body of a man believed to be around 50 years old.

"The body does not appear to have been in the water for an extended period of time," the sheriff's office said in a Facebook statement on Monday.

The discovery was made as teams searched the waters for a freediver who went missing near the site of the Halsey shipwreck, about 13 miles southeast of the inlet.

The 435-foot-long ship was traveling from Corpus Christi, Texas to New York on May 6, 1942, when it was struck by a torpedo and sank, according to Fishing Status.

Florida Freedivers, a dive shop in North Palm Beach, identified the missing diver as Virgil Price, a member of their team.

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[–] SpaghettiYeti@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A TORPEDO??? wtf is going on from TX to NY waterway