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Missing Diver off Sanibel Island Found Dead

Update: U.S. Coast Guard units report they've recovered the body the missing diver.  An investigation is ongoing.  

The Coast Guard is searching for a missing diver about 18 miles west of Sanibel Island.

At 10:50 a.m. Wednesday morning, the call went out from a recreational boat that a 52-year-old male diver never resurfaced. The St. Petersburg Command Center of the U.S. Coast Guard sent out a helicopter crew from Clearwater and a rescue response boat and crew from Fort Myers Beach to search  for the missing diver.

The Lee County Sheriff’s office, the Cape Coral Fire Rescue and Estero marine dive team are also searching.

Updates can be found on the regional Coast Guard’s Twitter feed.

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.