Key West Dive Instructor Disappears

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On August 2, Tommy Faulkenberry, a dive instructor with Lost Reef Adventures in Key West, made a dive on the USS Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, seven miles off Key West. His goal was to hang a decompression tank on a line. Faulkenberry, 44, was diving from the operator's boat Dream Cat. The crew reported to the Coast Guard that he was overdue from a dive at 10.13 a.m., 53 minutes after being last seen.

After five days of searching by the Coast Guard, U.S. Navy and Army dive teams, the National Guard, and Florida authorities, the search was called off. They covered about 4,300 square miles, the size of Connecticut....

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