RedactedNarrative: On Sunday, October 14, 2018, at approximately 1828 hours, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Officers responded to a vessel accident in the Gulf of Mexico, located in Sarasota County. A 2005, 26-foot Chaparral vessel was drifting approximately 100 feet from the shoreline, near a sandbar with three subjects on board. One subject dove head first into approximately four feet of water, from the back of the vessel. He struck his head on the sea floor suffering an injury to his neck. The victim was recovered, floating face down and was unresponsive. The two remaining occupants recovered the victim, began CPR and transported him to shore where they were met by Sarasota County Sheriff's Deputies and EMS. The victim was transported to Sarasota Memorial Hospital, treated for his injuries, and subsequently died on Tuesday, October 16, 2018. 
  Victim died as a result of a fractured cervical spine from a blunt impact to his head. The autopsy report concluded that there were no common drugs of abuse discovered in his blood at the time of the accident. Ethyl Alcohol was discovered in blood in the amount of 64 mg/dl.
  