FORT PIERCE \u2014 A diver was found deceased after a search amid a mayday call on June 26 in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n
On Friday, June 26, at 11:30 a.m., the U.S Coast Guard Station Fort Pierce received a mayday call regarding a missing diver.<\/p>\n
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission deployed four vessels in a search effort.<\/p>\n
A group of civilian divers, who were friends of the diver, were notified of the emergency and departed the Fort Pierce Inlet at approximately 1 p.m. to aid in the search, according to SLCSO.<\/p>\n
Responding units made contact with the vessel approximately six to seven miles north\/northwest of the Fort Pierce Inlet, nearly due west of Avalon State Park, according to SLCSO.<\/p>\n
At 4:10 p.m., the group of civilian divers entered the water and found the missing diver at the bottom of the ocean, approximately 55 feet below the surface.<\/p>\n
The diver was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident is being conducted by the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office criminal investigations division.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2014 A diver was found deceased after a search amid a mayday call on June 26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-321447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321447","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=321447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}