Snorkeler fatality - Key Largo Florida

[DandyDon]

I think they required snorkel vests when I first tried that there but that was over 20 years ago. Sounds like something went wrong on the surface....?

From Snorkeler, scuba diver die in Keys waters over the weekend - KeysNet.com

Saturday morning, John Dowicki, 66, from Venice, on the state's west coast south of Bradenton, was snorkeling off a commercial boat out of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. Witnesses say he went into the water about 10 a.m. with a number of others about five miles offshore at Grecian Rocks.
Herrin said members of the vessel's crew noticed him drifting away, and yelled to him and threw him a line, but he was not responsive.
The first mate went into the water and got him, but he wasn't breathing. When he was pulled onto the boat, they began CPR. When they reached shore, deputies and paramedics met the vessel. Dowicki was pronounced dead the scene.