RedactedNarrative: Victim was found floating face down next to a vessels anchor line. Victim floated off in the tide and was later located on a sea grass flat. Victim was unresponsive. Victim had left in a kayak the previous night. Vessel 1 was never located.
  
  On February 4th, 2018 at approximately 0948 AM I was dispatched to a call of a man found floating in the water in Key West harbor, Monroe County, Florida. At 738 AM a call came out of a body floating in the water near an anchored vessel in the area east of Wisteria island. Officer was dispatched to the call and went on water patrol.  Officer arrived on scene at approximately 9:14 AM and found a naked man on a sea grass flat.  Officer 2 also arrived on scene and began to speak to a witness that had seen the body of the man on his anchor line. The witness, had seen the body earlier and by the time he called the police the wind and current had taken the body away. 
   
  Earlier in the morning U.S. Coast Guard had gotten a report of a missing/overdue kayaker. She stated that her husband had left on a kayak the night prior when she was sleeping. He had failed to return.  
  The body was positively identified as the man that was found floating on the sea grass flat.
  
  The body was recovered and brought into USCG sector Key West. Dean Lopez funeral home took custody.
  
  Officers brought me out to the vessel and I made the next of kin notification to her.
  I attended the autopsy on February 6th, 2018 with Medical Examiner. Dr. did not detect any foul play and has listed the cause of death as drowning.
  
  It is suspected that victim fell out of his kayak and while trying to get back in the kayak suffered contusions to the groin area. The contusions are consistent with someone trying to climb back in a kayak. He also had a contusion on his left arm in the tricep area. This injury is also consistent with trying to climb back into the kayak. He was also found with a rope burn on his right wrist consistent with when he was initially found on a subjects vessel anchor line. He had a small cut above his right eye due to a crab or fish bite, post mortem.