Officials searching for diver who failed to resurface in the waters off Jensen Beach

Yesterday morning, Florida’s St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office announced that a man from West Palm Beach who was free diving in the area near the Halsey shipwreck which is approximately nine miles off Jensen Beach and about 13 miles southeast of the Ft. Pierce Inlet, failed to resurface after a dive.

Initially, the U.S. Coast Guard identified the missing diver as 39-year-old “Ryan” Price of West Palm Beach; but just a few hours ago, the Coast Guard updated and corrected the diver’s name as Virgil Price.

#Update 2: #CORRECTION the missing diver’s name is Virgil Price. @USCG air and surface crews will continue searching throughout the day. #SAR

— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) May 13, 2024

Price was last seen wearing a green wetsuit with an orange stripe on the hood, yellow weights on his weight belt, and black carbon fiber fins. The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, to include the Dive Team, has been and will continue to assist the United States Coast Guard and MyFWC Florida Fish and Wildlife, who is the lead in this investigation.

Please call Sector Miami at 305-535-4472 if you have any information regarding Price’s whereabouts.

For more on the story, see the video accompanying this article.

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(Cover photo: Image credit, St. Luci County Sheriff’s Office)

Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today
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