Two jump from Sunshine Skyway this morning

Update: Officials confirmed that two people jumped from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge this morning, with diverging results.

One of them, Maggie Dennis, 44, of Tampa, jumped from the center span of the bridge - 197 feet, 4 inches at its peak -  and was killed, said Hillsborough County Sheriff's spokesman Debbie Carter said.

Investigators say Dennis jumped sometime after 7:22 a.m. She had parked her car on the bridge's center span, left a note inside the car, then jumped over a rail and plummeted into the rocks below.

Relatives were in the process of filing a missing person's report, Carter said.

The other woman, Dorothe Kadane, 85, of St. Petersburg, jumped  25 to 30 feet into the water from the bridge's southwest side, Carter said. She survived.

It is unclear what provoked Kadane into her attempt. Investigators also found a note in Kadane's car.

She was found by U.S. Coast Guard rescuers floating about 3 miles from Anna Maria Island around 9:30 a.m. Authorities believe she had been in the water for two hours, putting Dennis and Kadane's jumps at roughly the same time.

U.S. Coast Guard rescuers took Kadane to Galati Yacht Sales on Anna Maria Island, and was later taken to Bradenton's Blake Medical Center for a physical evaluation. Officials say she was "not injured in any way."

Manatee County Sheriff's Office spokesman Dave Bristow said Kadane will be taken into custody by their deputies under the Baker Act, a Florida law empowering police officers to take those they believe to be in need of a mental evaluation to hospitals for fear of harm to themselves or others.

Including today's jumps, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said there have been 46 suicide attempts since 2002. Three people have survived.

-- Casey Cora, Times staff writer