FL mini Lobster Season 2014 Accidents and Incidents

[mselenaous]

Half way through the first day and there already is a report of one fatality.

Man dies after diving for lobsters in Pompano Beach | News - Home

Man dies after diving for lobsters in Pompano Beach

Author: Peter Burke, Managing Editor, pburke@local10.com
Published On: Jul 30 2014 10:03:00 AM EDT Updated 8 m

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.-A diver has died after being brought to the Hillsboro Inlet marina in Pompano Beach.
City spokeswoman Sandra King said the man, 22, was diving for lobsters in 40 feet of water when he surfaced unconscious.
The man was on a chartered dive trip called Scubatyme.
He was brought to the marina, where paramedics were waiting to take him to Broward Health North.
The man was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The death could be the first of Florida's two-day lobster mini-season, which began Wednesday.

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[iamrushman]

first; condolences to the family and his friends.......the word i got was he had to have one more lobster on half a tank of air...any true detail available?

Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Gina Carter said Joseph Grosso, 22, of Lighthouse Point, was diving for lobsters with a large group of people in the water off Pompano Beach when he decided to go back into the water alone.

 

[Hetland]

I heard that he still had gas in his tank, but that he had the dive flag rope wrapped around his neck. Could have been strangulation, lost his reg during entanglement, AGE after panic, any number of things.

-h

 

[harmonised]

I heard several confilicting reports, but it's really sad. He had his whole future ahead of him.