PENSACOLA, Florida — Pensacola police are investigating but do not suspect foul play in the death of a Robertsdale man who was pulled from Pensacola Bay Thursday morning.

PPD Public Information Officer Mike Wood said officers received a call at 4:55 a.m. Thursday, “of a man in Pensacola Bay swimming and singing, which is obviously unusual for that time of the morning,” Wood said in a phone interview on Friday.

Wood said a PPD officer responded to the scene and made visual contact with the man, identified as 68-year-old Homer Perriman of Robertsdale, doing the backstroke near Graffiti Bridge in Pensacola.

“She called to the man and asked him to come to her,” Wood said. “She said he then turned, smiled at her and immediately sank under the water.”

Fire crews and EMS with the Pensacola Fire Department were called in to assist PPD in pulling the man from the water at the North 17th Street boat ramp, according to reports.

“He was unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene,” Wood said. “We are currently investigating the case as an accident. We do not believe there was any foul play involved.”

Wood said Perriman’s body was taken to the morgue at Sacred Heart Hospital and they are awaiting word whether or not an autopsy will be performed.

“We do not know at this time whether or not there were any drugs in his system,” Wood said. “It would take an autopsy to determine that and I do not know the status of that.”