{"id":286791,"date":"2026-05-27T22:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286791\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:58:15","slug":"mississippi-woman-dies-after-snorkeling-accident-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286791\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi woman dies after snorkeling accident in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KEY WEST, Fla. (WLBT) &#8211; A Mississippi woman is dead after a snorkeling accident Tuesday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office in the Florida Keys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At approximately 1:30 p.m. May 26, 63-year-old Lecia Elizabeth Spriggs of Madison, Mississippi, was snorkeling near Mule Key off Key West with a commercial company when she was found unresponsive in the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">CPR began immediately and the U.S. Coast Guard brought Spriggs ashore, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Spriggs was taken to the Lower Keys Medical Center on Stock Island, where she was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said autopsy results are pending but foul play is not suspected to be a factor in this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No further information has been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Want more WLBT news in your inbox? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2026\/05\/27\/mississippi-woman-dies-after-snorkeling-accident-florida\/mailto:wlbt-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a> to report it and include the headline of the story in your email.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/page\/download-the-wlbt-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Watch WLBT Live!\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RIXYVIO7URDVJOSPAF7HZ33RTQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLBT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEY WEST, Fla. (WLBT) &#8211; A Mississippi woman is dead after a snorkeling accident Tuesday, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,2472,29,121478,644,121533,121534,121532,6824,121530,121531],"class_list":["post-286791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-keys","tag-florida-news","tag-lecia-elizabeth-spriggs","tag-madison","tag-madison-woman","tag-madison-woman-dies-in-snorkeling-accident","tag-mississippi-woman-dies-after-snorkeling-accident-in-florida","tag-monroe-county-sheriffs-office","tag-snorkeling-accident","tag-woman-dies-after-snorkeling-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286791","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=286791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}