Florida ppl get word their cousin went missing while diving in the Gulf and the Coast Guard has been searching for him for 2 hours off Key West.
That's crazy. Really long odds of finding him that quickly. Not even remotely as precarious of a situation, but early in my career I got left floating alone and the boat that got me there was roughly 1.5 miles away. The boat driver I was with had slowed down so I thought we must have been at the coordinates for the next lobster condo. I dropped off the dive board to take a look. Driver guns it to her and I couldn't hold on of course. He didnt hear me yell. Turned out that he slowed down because another boat had called him for something and he was heading that way. So I spent some time just floating on the surface waving one my fins in the air waiting on the driver to notice I'm gone. I could see him pulled up to the other boat and he was there for a bit before the other boat asked where the fuck I was and he took off to find me. Luckily for me it was a glass calm, broad daylight and it had been like 10 mins probably so he spotted me without much searching. I say all this to say that those 10-15 minutes were terrifying even though I knew they'd find me. I can't imagine floating like that and knowing how bleak the situation is.
I didn’t watch all of the tik toks; but one said the coast guard had been looking for 2 hours, and these people went to his “last known coordinates” and voila he was there? So where was the coast guard looking for this guy? How was he still at his last known coordinates and not drifting away?
He was in the Gulf Stream, which is a massive current that basically runs down the east coast of FL and parts of the southeast United States, so no he wasn’t in the same spot.
I'd imagine it's a combination of it being hard to spot one person floating in open water if the conditions aren't ideal and like Sean Connery said, depending on what tide was doing they could have found him in a much different spot than he was even an hour before
Must be scary as heck, glad he was found. One day after a nearly fatal freak accident he’s making TikTok’s while driving pffffttt
Suspect it is shear chance that he drifted / swam in direction that happened to be on those that found him’s route to his last coordinates - probably not at his last known coordinates. Likely Coast guard would have been looking where current should have taken him; whereas he said he swam against current to get to the reef where they got him (?)