Three men were on a fishing trip in the Everglades. It ended tragically with a 911 call
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Two men drowned during a fishing trip in the Everglades, deputies say.
The tragedy unfolded Sunday afternoon at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, in western Palm Beach County just north of the Broward line.
Family members were fishing around 2 p.m. at the end of Lox Road when Celso Santizo Cobon, 20, fell in the water. Elizazar Aguilar Reynoso, 30, quickly jumped in to rescue him. Neither surfaced.
A third man went into the water to retrieve them, but he was unsuccessful and then went to shore to call 911, a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office spokesman told the Miami Herald Sunday.
The two bodies were recovered shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday by marine unit deputies and officers with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Cobon and Reynoso didn’t know how to swim, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office and Coral Springs Fire Department also responded. No other information was immediately available.
Miami Herald staff writer Michelle Marchante contributed to this report.
This story was originally published August 29, 2022 at 7:33 AM.
