64. Edgewater man dies in scuba diving accident at Blue Springs State Park in Orange City

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Blue Springs State Park in Orange City, FL / Headline SurferHeadline Surfer graphic / Blue Spring State Park, winter home of manateees for its warm waters, is where a scuba diver, Samul Slack, 36, of Edgewater,  lost his life in a diving accident apparently caused by equipment failure on Oct. 9.
 

ORANGE CITY -- A 36-year-old Edgewater man died in October in a scuba diving accident at Blue Springs State Park.

The victim was identified as Samuel Slack, a Volusia County Sheriff's official said.

Slack was pronounced dead at 3::43 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City. The Sheriff's Office had been called at 2:52 p.m. in responding to the fatality, agency spokesman Brandon Haught said.

"(Slack) was transported to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City where he was pronounced dead," Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught told Headline Surfer®, after his agency responded to a 9-1-1 call at 2:52 that the victim was unresponsive.

A diving partner, 37-year-old Daniel Vansickle of New Smyrna Beach, was transported to Florida Hospital Orlando for treatment.

The Sheriff's Office is investigating the death as is standard procedure but no foul play was suspected. Investigators believe the death may have been the result of equipment failure.

The scuba fatality comes in at No. 64 in the Headline Surfer® countdown of the top 100 tories of 2013.

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