Canadian student dies on French Reef - Key Largo Florida

[DandyDon]

Keys visitor from Canada dies during offshore dive | News - Home

KEY LARGO, Fla. - A Canadian man visiting the Florida Keys died while diving off the coast of Key Largo.
James Leek, 58, of Ontario, Canada, was diving with an instructor Thursday afternoon in 38 feet of water at French Reef.
The captain of the dive vessel told a Monroe County sheriff's deputy that Leek appeared to be fine after he and the instructor surfaced following a half-hour dive. But when the duo reached the boat's ladder, Leek became unresponsive.

The instructor and the captain both began performing CPR on Leek after loading him onto the boat.
Paramedics met the boat called "Visibility" at the dock and took Leek to Mariner's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death.

 

[Stoo]

How unfortunate. This sounds virtually identical to an accident we had up here this past summer.

We old farts really need to stay in better shape... :-(

 

[divad]

Who are you calling farts?!!:shocked2:

 

[skoobajunkie]

It was pretty sad. We saw their gear floating and scooped it up while they were doing CPR. Thoughts go out to his friends and family. That kinda stuff always hits us hard down here in the keys

 

[Wookie]

Sad. At least they didn't call the dive boat a commercial dive vessel. RIP.

 

[mselenaous]

A very sad event for the Keys. My condolences to the diver's family.

 

[DivemasterDennis]

Any man's death diminishes me...... John Donne. Condolences to his family and friends.

 

[iamrushman]

wow...sad news indeed...

 

[carltona]

Very sad. My age. I wish we could get more information about the Cause. As a pilot we got NTSB reports on probable causes of crashes to hopefully help the rest of us learn something. Is there a repository of accident information that's searchable?