Historical records indicate dozens of people may have been buried at site now in waters west of Key West, officials say

Archeologists have found the remains of a 19th-century quarantine hospital and cemetery on a submerged island in the Dry Tortugas national park, off Florida in the Gulf of Mexico.

While only one grave has been identified, historical records indicate dozens of people – mostly US soldiers stationed at Fort Jefferson – may have been buried at the site now in waters west of Key West, Florida, park officials said.

Samantha Conover and her companions were on a boat and took action to locate a man and his teen whose jet ski had sunk

A woman, her fiancé and her friends were heading back from dinner on a boat last weekend when they ended up helping save the lives of a father and daughter whose personal watercraft had sunk near Tampa, Florida.

The Tampa news channel WFTS hailed Samantha Conover and her companions as heroes after they helped a local sheriff’s office deputy search for the missing man and girl and pull them out of the water, but the group has resisted the label.