BERKELEY COUNTY — The coroner has identified a Virginia man as the diver who died this weekend.

Mark Beckler, a 55-year-old from Arlington, Va., traveled to the Palmetto State to dive in Cooper River on Sept. 20, the Berkeley County Coroner’s Office said Sept. 22.

That’s what he and three others from out of state were doing north of the Bushy Park Boat Landing when Beckler did not surface as expected.

Several law enforcement agencies, including the sheriff's office and the Coast Guard, conducted an extensive search for Beckler after people reported a diver in distress midday on Sept. 20.

Law enforcement deployed drones in the air and water and sent divers to search for the man, Sheriff Duane Lewis told The Post and Courier.

It was a passerby who spotted the wetsuit-clad body just be

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