This particular Thursday morning— 28 November 2019—was especially nice. It was Thanksgiving. Tourists and locals alike hit the beaches. The water was flat, the sky blue, and the underwater visibility spectacular. Twenty-five-year-old Viss and his 32-year-old coworker, Andy Earl, spent a couple of hours among the sharks, eels, turtles, octopus, lionfish, and angelfish. They netted some small specimens for Viss’s personal collection. Finally, around noon, they headed for shore.
To a diver underwater, outboard engines have a clear, unmistakable sound. On the surface, however, swimming the crawl, Viss didn’t hear the powerboat until it was almost on top of him. When he saw it, he knew he had just an instant. He pulled desperately to one side, getting his head and upper torso out of the boat’s path before it ran him over.
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