News of local attorney Jim Evans going missing during a dive off the coast of Daytona Beach over the weekend has shocked the legal community and those who knew him, fellow attorneys said on Sunday.
"I got the news about 9 o'clock Friday night via text message from a mutual friend," said Don Dempsey, a DeLand attorney who practices criminal and family law. "It's just bad news that you don't want to hear or expect."
The U.S. Coast Guard in Jacksonville said via Twitter and Facebook that they started searching for Evans after getting reports that he went missing during a dive 30 miles off the coast east of Daytona Beach on Friday.
On Sunday, the Coast Guard said Evans had not been found despite an all-out three-day search.
The U.S. Coast Guard said it was reported that Evans was wearing a multi-color camouflaged wet suit when he disappeared.
Family and people who knew Jim Evans react
Also, in a tweet on Saturday, Evans’ daughter, Kylie, who goes by the Twitter identification @cryingcheeto, said her father went diving offshore on Friday and never surfaced back to the boat.
Evans also had a son, who friends identified as Cole.
“He’s an experienced diver that has been out this far and down that deep more times than I can count,” Evans’ daughter said on Twitter. “He knows exactly what to do in this situation. I’m just waiting for good news and praying he’s floating somewhere along the coast waiting to be found.”
Another post on Facebook from Marsha Evans Cooksey, Evans' ex-wife,...
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