Brad Robert Sprout, a Seabeck native and Klahowya Secondary School graduate, was killed Sunday in a commercial diving accident. Sprout, 29, was working for a company called Global Diving and Salvage in Ciudad del Carmen, located in the south of the country and on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. The accident remains under investigation by both Mexican and U.S. authorities.
He was the son of a longtime Seabeck family and graduate of Klahowya in 2001. The athletic Sprout competed on the football field, wrestling mat and in track and field for the school, according to his family.
He was an accomplished tattoo artist and enthusiast, working for a time at local parlors. He had numerous tattoos but brother Brandon Sprout says he was most proud of the one of his father, Orin, on his left biceps, which he got following his father's death in 2009.
Inspired by family members, including his father, who worked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Sprout went to a diving school in Seattle, graduating in 2006. He'd recently relocated to Houston in his job with Global Diving and Salvage.
"He was proud to be a diver," uncle Jim Boscola said.
