{"id":263489,"date":"2026-05-08T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263489\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:25:09","slug":"investigation-underway-after-64-year-old-diver-dies-in-propeller-incident-off-bimini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263489\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after 64-year-old diver dies in propeller incident off Bimini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 8, 2026 at 10:05 AM<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say boat was en route to Miami when diver died from injurieslead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/432IRG5Q6ZCMDFVDNRJLWMVKQY.png\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BIMINI, Bahamas \u2014 A 64-year-old man died after suffering injuries from a boat propeller while diving off Bimini in the northern Bahamas, authorities confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/08\/investigan-incidente-con-helice-frente-a-bimini-que-dejo-muerto-a-buzo-de-64-anos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/08\/investigan-incidente-con-helice-frente-a-bimini-que-dejo-muerto-a-buzo-de-64-anos\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police in Alice Town said the incident happened Thursday afternoon, about 17 miles off Bimini aboard a 61-foot sport fishing vessel named Great Lakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they were notified shortly after 3 p.m. and contacted the U.S. Coast Guard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said officers with the Royal Bahamas Police Force and members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force responded to the area and located the boat northwest of North Bimini around 4:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said six men were aboard the gold-colored boat when officers discovered one man had suffered severe injuries to his right leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the group had been diving when the victim reportedly became entangled in the boat\u2019s propeller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After discussions between Bahamian police, the boat captain and the U.S. Coast Guard, officials determined the boat should head to Miami \u2014 about 38 miles away \u2014 so the injured man could receive emergency medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police later learned the man, who has not yet been identified, died from his injuries while the boat was en route to the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details about the investigation were immediately released. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 8, 2026 at 10:05 AM Authorities say boat was en route to Miami when diver died from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-263489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}