A Canadian teenager drowned Wednesday while training with his swim team off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico.
William Zhang, 17, “was visiting Florida from Quebec, Canada, with his swim team for a swim camp,” the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said.
The teen and his teammates from Collège Notre-Dame, a private high school in Montreal, went into the water in Indian Shores, near Tampa, in the morning but “did not return to shore at the end of the drills.”
A search commenced around 9 a.m. before the sheriff’s office Underwater Search and Recovery Team recovered his body around 5:30 p.m.
“Per detectives, the swim coaches advised that they checked for riptides or hazards before the swimmers entered the water,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
The death is not considered suspicious, but it remains unclear what caused the boy to drown.
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