3 New Jersey Divers Die Off Florida Keys While Exploring Sunken Ship
March 16, 2007
I have friends who do a good bit of diving... Stories such as this always give one pause for thought...
KEY LARGO, Fla. —
Three friends from New Jersey, all experienced divers, died Friday while exploring the wreckage of a sunken ship off the Florida Keys, police said.
The men were taking part in a penetration dive into the wreckage, a type of dive which is "more dangerous than routine diving," Monroe County Sheriff's spokesperson Becky Herrin told FOXNews.com.
"These wrecks can be very confusing inside," Herrin said. "There's a lot of places to go wrong."
Causes of death for the men have not yet been determined.
The four men were friends traveling together to explore the wreckage of the USS Speigel Grove, according to a press release from the Sheriff's Department.
Herrin estimated that a total of eight to ten divers die yearly throughout the Keys, from a variety of different causes.
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,259210,00.html
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