At least 16 people were taken to the hospital after two airboats in the Everglades carrying more than 30 people crashed Friday afternoon. The crash happened around 3:15 p.m. near Ochopee in Collier County, according to reporting from the Miami Herald. One airboat had 20 people on board while the…
Authorities with the Walton County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday that they found the body of a missing boater after a two-day-long search. The man, Benjamin Goodman, 35, launched a boat onto the Choctawhatchee Bay in the Florida Panhandle near Destin Tuesday. After his boat began taking on water, submerging the…
Authorities confirmed over the weekend that the human head that washed ashore on Key Biscayne belonged to a teen who went missing off Miami Beach a week before after being caught in a rip current. Victor Enrique Castaneda Jr., 19, was swimming with his sister off South Pointe Beach on…
A woman killed as the result of a tragic Nov. 7 boat crash in Key West has been identified by authorities as a 28-year-old Hialeah woman. Stephanie Rodriguez, the woman killed in the incident, was among several people who were ejected into the water after the driver of a 39-foot…
A person has died and two others remain hospitalized after a boat overturned in Key Largo Saturday, marking at least the second boat crash in the Florida Keys in just over a week, officials say. Saturday’s crash happened before 10:30 a.m. when a 34-foot Nor-Tech carrying three people turned sharply,…
At least four people were injured and one other died after they were ejected from a boat that crashed into a Key West sandbar Thursday afternoon, authorities told reporters with The Miami Herald. The crash happened around 4 p.m. when a 39-foot Deep Impact vessel carrying at least eight people…
Nearly three months have passed since a spearfisherman was killed by a passing boater over the July Fourth Weekend. Recently, authorities have charged that boater in the man’s death. Palmer Reid Long Jr., 72, of Placida, Florida, was charged on Sept. 23, with vessel homicide after police say he didn’t…
A woman pregnant with her second child and her husband have died following a snorkeling incident while on vacation in Maui. The tragedy took place on Saturday, Sept. 14 just after noon on the north side of Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve, according to reporting from national news outlets. The couple…
The U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday that it was suspending its 8,462-square-mile search for a missing 70-year-old man following news of his boat being found abandoned, according to reporting from local news outlets. Bert Erwin was on a 150-mile trip up Florida’s coast from Marco Island to Indian Rocks Beach…
An 18-year-old died when she was hit by a propeller trying to board a New Jersey boat over the weekend officials say. The teen was on a raft being pulled by the boat and, when she tried to get on the boat, was hit by the propeller. Additional details were…