Search suspended for South Florida diver lacking in waters off Bimini since Friday

NBC 6- Search efforts had been suspended Sunday afternoon for a lacking diver working in South Florida who had been lacking in Bimini, Bahamas since Friday.

Ryan Proulx was final seen diving close to a wreck a half-mile offshore. Mates mentioned that they had not been capable of finding him and his spouse was serving to within the search efforts.

On Thursday, he had departed with eight others on two boats from a marina in Palm Seashore County.

The Bahamian Division of Protection was dealing with the search together with the US Coast Guard Sector Seven, however known as off the search Sunday.

NBC affiliate WPTV-TV studies the 31-year-old Proulx was from Connecticut, the place he had been a police officer in East Hartford from 2017 to 2021, earlier than changing into a ship captain in South Florida.

“We provide our deepest condolences to the Proulx household,” Lt. Cmdr. Matt Spado, Coast Guard liaison officer, mentioned in a publish on Twitter. “The choice to droop the lively search efforts pending additional growth is one we by no means take seemingly.”