Diver dies off Hawaii's Big Island

[BDSC]

Understood.

 

[HowardE]

OK... It's a misunderstanding... enough said...

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Thanks in advance,
Rick

 

[diver 85]

I assume you're talking about these two sentences:



The whole last paragraph reads like boiler plate text they would use, any time the local police have an unidentified body and not enough information to be reasonably sure how it ended up there. Probably nothing especially sinister about them following procedure and using their standard wording.

Yea, that's them, just looked unusual, that's all.......

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

....The whole last paragraph reads like boiler plate text they would use, any time the local police have an unidentified body and not enough information to be reasonably sure how it ended up there. Probably nothing especially sinister about them following procedure and using their standard wording.

The statement is indeed a standard printed statement the police make here in the local Big Island media when they are searching for information from the public. It does not necessarily mean they suspect a crime, they are often just looking for any possible witnesses that can help determine what happened.

I just heard about this accident this morning, and don't know anything other than what has been published. If I hear anything from my local contacts I'll post it, but the chances of learning anything substantial are slim.

Best wishes.

 

[acooper]

The local papers puts those sentences on the end of just about any article that involves a death. Just boiler plate, do not read to much into them.

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

In today's newspaper, preliminary autopsy results list cause of death as cardiac arrest. The diver was a 58 year old male, from Alaska. His name was published, but I do not feel it is relavent or approriate for me to post it.

So, full details will probably never be known, other than that a 58 year old male apparently suffered a heart attack while scuba diving at a relatively remote site (South Point) on the Big Island.

Best wishes.