Coast Guard searching for missing diver off Marquesas Key
Coast Guard crews were searching the waters off the Marquesas Keys Wednesday for a 46-year-old man who never returned from a dive.
According to the Coast Guard, a friend reported the man missing at about noon Wednesday.
The man, who was last seen wearing a camouflage wetsuit, was about nine miles southwest of the Marquesas Keys, about 20 miles west of Key West.
The man's dive buoy and spear gun were found in the water.
A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 helicopter crew, an Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry and a Station Key West 33-foot boat crew were out looking for the diver.
Carli Teproff: 305-376-3587, @CTeproff
This story was originally published September 7, 2016 at 8:31 PM with the headline "Coast Guard searching for missing diver off Marquesas Key."