A Chinese tourist in her 30s mysteriously drowned on Sunday during a group scuba diving trip off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida.
She was found with a weight belt still strapped around her waist, but had no other equipment on her body, leading police to launch an investigation.
The woman, who has not been named, failed to surface after a group of 40 divers went into the water near Key Biscayne.
Group diving trip: The female Chinese tourist in her 30s was found dead during the group diving trip in Key Biscayne, Miami (diving group pictured alongside police)
A shocked diver, who was part of the group, Ariane Dimitris, said scuba divers are taught to jettison the weight belt that keeps them under water.
"I've never heard of anyone taking off even their fins. It's very strange," Dimitris said.
"And normally if someone panics you're supposed to drop your weights and keep everything else on you because that was her survival."
Divers believe keeping the weight belt on was the woman's fatal mistake.
Tourist attraction: Divers were taken out on a boat from Key Biscayne (pictured) and were meant to pair up with buddies, but the woman who died did not speak English and left her partner
Investigation: Local Miami Beach Police (pictured) are investigating the mysterious death
The woman was declared missing after the group did a roll call and she was not there.
Divers used a buddy system but the women did not speak English and left her partner, WSVN.com reported.
The US Coast Guard sent a boat to join in the search for the woman who was found after two hours.
"We brought her back up, I did CPR, I'm an EMT," said diver Kevin Galloway, who was on the boat.
"There were also two student doctors on the boat. We did what we could but she was gone."
The victim had taken part in a scuba dive organised by RJ Diving Ventures of Miami Beach.
Mysterious death: The woman had been diving off the coast of Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida (pictured)
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