A 43-year-old man from India died on Wednesday morning after he was diving on Molasses Reef off Key Largo.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, Abhinav Lamba was diving around 11 a.m. when he appeared to be in distress and went subsurface. Commercial dive employees located him in approximately 25 feet of water, brought him to a commercial dive vessel and began CPR.
Lamba was taken to Mariners Hospital in Tavernier where he was pronounced dead. Foul play does not appear to be a factor in the incident. Autopsy results are pending.
It’s the second diving-related death in the course of a week. A 71-year-old Columbia, Missouri man died on March 13 after a dive on the shipwreck Eagle off the coast of Islamorada. The Monroe County Sherriff’s Office said Lonnie Lee Higgins was found on the ocean floor depth of approximately 110 feet by Conch Republic Divers employees. Higgins was taken back to the commercial vessel. CPR began and continued by arriving U.S. Coast Guard personnel. Higgins was pronounced dead at Mariners Hospital in Tavernier.
