Me too. I was in high school and lived in Coral Gables (still my home). At the time I was very big into catching with my best buddy and selling snakes to both the local pet stores ($8 a foot in length) for rat snakes to be pets and to the Serpentarium when we got a moccasin or the extremely rare Coral Snake ($30 a foot but they only went about 3 feet in length). We usually went out in the summers for more $$$ instead of taking more mundane summer jobs. Got us ready for the army later on. He went Special Forces and retired from there as a Lieutenant Colonel and I went regular Infantry and later Armor getting out just before making Captain, which I made in the reserves. I know we had friends who were servicing rescue efforts to the wreck with their airboats. I was just a sophomore and couldn't drive yet. My buddy was a year ahead of me and has a great little CJ Jeep we often drove out to Loop Road.
My stepdad worked for Eastern for 34 years. It was a very sad event. One of those things you never forget. Nice to meet another Floridian. I live in SC now but grew up in South Florida.