FORT PIERCE \u2014 The St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office has identified the diver who died after disappearing while attempting to recover a trolling motor that fell into the ocean June 27.<\/p>\n
The victim was identified as Greer Boyd, 63, of Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n
According to the Sheriff\u2019s Office, Boyd and several friends were fishing the morning of June 27 when the vessel\u2019s trolling motor became detached and sank.<\/p>\n
The group marked the location and later returned with diving gear to retrieve the motor.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Boyd entered the water alone to search for the equipment. He resurfaced about 40 yards from the boat before disappearing again.<\/p>\n
When the boat reached the location where Boyd was last seen, his companions found his buoyancy compensator and air tank floating in the water, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
At about 4:10 p.m., a civilian diver entered the water and found Boyd about 55 feet below the surface.<\/p>\n
An autopsy was scheduled to determine the cause of death, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2014 The St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office has identified the diver who died after disappearing while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-329999","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\/329999","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=329999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}