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Rescuers pulled the body of a white male out of Biscayne Bay around 8:30 this morning after he was spotted floating just south of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The man was a jet skier, Gabriella Ferraro, a Florida Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman, tells Riptide — but he hasn’t been ID’d yet and it’s not clear how he died.
The Coast Guard spent hours searching for a missing Jet Skier yesterday, Ferraro says, and officers are trying to determine if the body is the same man.
Update: Ferraro says the man is 24-year-old Javier Lopez, the same jet skier reported missing this weekend.
“We’re investigating whether there was a collision that led to this drowning,” Ferraro says.
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Ferraro says they’ll likely be able to ID the victim in the next couple hours — we’ll update the post when we learn more.
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