Cave Diving Fatality

[Cavern Junkie]

A Newberry man drowned Tuesday afternoon while he and his friends
were diving in a cave at Peacock Springs in Suwannee County.

David Benjamin Jones, 34, was last seen just after 1 p.m. by two
friends diving with him, said Suwannee County Sheriff Tony Cameron.

Cameron said that while diving, Jones told his friends he was low on
air and was leaving the cave. But Jones was eventually found in a
another section of the cave, indicating he got lost trying to swim
out, Cameron said.

Jones friends notified the Sheriff's office at about 2 p.m., Cameron
said. Jones had been missing for 55 minutes when a recovery diver
found his body. Jones was not a certified cave diver, Cameron said.

Cameron said the body was sent to the Medical Examiner's Office for
an autopsy, but that nothing indicates that foul play was involved.