Three divers killed as Florida wreck dive went wrong

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MIAMI (AFP) — Three scuba divers died Friday while diving on a popular shipwreck off south Florida, and police were still trying to retrieve two of the bodies stuck inside the sunken 155-meter vessel, police said.

A fourth diver who had remained outside ascended safely as he began running out of air, and alerted another team of divers that his buddies had failed to return from their penetration of the Spiegel Grove wreck.

The search party eventually returned with one of the divers, "who was in distress," the Monroe County Sheriff's department said. The rescued diver was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Mariners Hospital in the Florida Keys.

"The two other divers did not surface and initial searches of the area failed to locate them," the Sheriff's...