{"id":367805,"date":"2026-08-10T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367805\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:48:10","slug":"west-bloomfield-twp-man-dies-while-diving-in-florida-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/367805\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bloomfield Twp man dies while diving in Florida Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARATHON, Fla. (WXYZ) \u2014 A West Bloomfield Township man is dead after being found unresponsive while diving in Marathon, Florida, on Monday morning, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/floridakeyssheriff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in Florida Keys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told this happened off Marathon, Florida, with police officials and the U.S. Coast Guard responding to help the man.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that Stephen Matheny was pulled from the water around 11:20 a.m. First responders attempted CPR, but attempts were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Matheny was taken to the Fisherman&#8217;s Hospital in Marathon, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>A cause of death is being investigated, but officials say that foul play is not believed to be a factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARATHON, Fla. (WXYZ) \u2014 A West Bloomfield Township man is dead after being found unresponsive while diving in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124003,133978,6499,28,30,29,149033,124005,149034,149035,149036,124004],"class_list":["post-367805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-7-action-news","tag-7-news-detroit","tag-detroit","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-marathon-florida","tag-metro-detroit","tag-stephen-matheny","tag-west-bloomfield-township","tag-west-bloomfield-township-man-drowns","tag-wxyz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367805","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=367805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}