Nicole Cuomo. Nicole Cuomo, 38, failed to resurface by 3:30 p.m. Saturday after a 100-foot 15 miles from shore, officials said. Photo courtesy of Tony Grogan
The Coast Guard is searching off the coast of Cape Canaveral for a yellow safety marker believed to belong to a Rockledge woman missing since a Saturday afternoon dive near Jupiter Inlet.
Nicole Cuomo, 38, failed to resurface by 3:30 p.m. Saturday after a 100-foot dive 15 miles from shore, officials said.
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Ding Ding Ding new world record YFT 353#...Unofficial as of now but it was supposedly taken within the rules.
Congratulations to Julian Allen-Ellis
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Posted on Sunday, Sep. 23, 2007
Diver drowns in Biscayne Bay
By DAVID SMILEY
A diver drowned Sunday in the waters of Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade police said.
The victim was diving around noon with two friends near Biscayne National Park in about 60 feet of water when one diver noticed the man had been separated from his diving equipment, police said.
The divers found the victim, pulled him onto their boat, and then called for help on a radio.
ORLANDO, Florida (Sept. 19) — Something in the lakes around Orlando, Florida, has claimed the lives of three boys this summer.
Will Sellars' family says he died after being exposed to a deadly amoeba on a Florida lake.
A killer lives in the lakewaters of Orlando, Fla. It has claimed the lives of three boys so far this summer -- and now scientists want to know why.
At first people exposed to the amoeba, naegleria fowleri, suffer from flu-like symptoms. Very quickly, in from one to 14 days, the symptoms worsen, Sherin said. "There's a downhill course. Folks lapse into a coma; there are abnormal movements of the eyes and a terrible cascade of events leading to the actual death of parts of the brain."
Sherin said exposure to the amoeba can be detected by an MRI and it can be treated with antibiotics if caught early enough, but Sherin said he believes medical personnel are not in the habit of looking for the disease.
That is because the amoeba is very rare. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, has documented 24 cases in the United States since 1989.
Health investigators said they believe Sellars' 11-year old son, Will, was exposed to the amoeba during an August weekend spent learning to wakeboard on Orlando's Lake Jessamine.
"You think it won't happen to me, it won't happen to my family." Sellars said. "You're wrong"
"[Will's] symptoms were like a flu bug," Sellars said, "We rushed him to the hospital and two days later he's passed away. It's like a nightmare." A month later, a 10-year-old boy died from exposure to the amoeba. Investigators have not determined where he was exposed. The death of a 14 year-old boy in June in the Orlando area also is being blamed on the amoeba.
He said anyone who exhibits flu-like symptoms who has been in a lake recently should see a doctor immediately.
Speaking in Will's old bedroom, which Steve Sellars has decorated with photographs of his son, Sellars said he hopes he can help get the word out. He does not want anyone to lose a family member as quickly and mysteriously as he did.
"It's the worst thing we ever had to go through and I hate to see any other parent go through this and another child lose his life," Sellars said.
2007-09-19 07:06:09
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Speed boat runs over, kills diver at Gingerbread Grounds
Powered by CDNN - CYBER DIVER News Network by STEPHEN GAY
BIMINI, Bahamas (9 August 2007) -- An early afternoon boating accident in the northern Bahamas on Wednesday left one diver dead.
Police said that around noon, Andrea Moscetti, 44, of Coral Gables, Florida, was piloting a 35-foot white and red intrepid go-fast boat, accompanied by his family, en route to Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands where he is a part time resident.
Police said Mr. Moscetti reported that halfway between Bimini and Great Harbour Cay, in an area known as the 'Gingerbread Grounds', his vessel struck an object in the water, which turned out to be a small boat.
Mr. Moscetti reportedly said he immediately slowed down and turned around then saw a diver climbing into the small boat who informed him that his vessel had struck and severely injured another diver who was in the water.
