Here's an article from a Gloucester paper regarding the accident. There's some pretty scary details coming out.
Scuba diver dead in Gloucester waters
By JOHN ENOS
Staff writer
A Belmont man died while scuba diving on the hulk of the sunken oil barge off Eastern Point yesterday afternoon.
Anthony Kalinowski, 50, of 18 Payson Road, was pronounced dead on arrival at Addison Gilbert Hospital.
A Coast Guard vessel transported his body to the Harbor Loop station after it was recovered from the Chester A. Poling.
Kalinowski had gone out to the spot where the barge broke up and sank in January 1977. He was diving from a Cape Ann Divers' boat with four other scuba divers.
Three were students instructed by Michael Paskiewski, 38, of Spencer. He and the others were interviewed by Detective Joseph Fitzgerald and Patrolman Sean Conners at the hospital.
Paskiewski told the police that Kalinowski dived first and alone, ahead of the others.
The next time he saw Kalinowski, Paskiewski said, he was struggling with Jesse Dotteror, 26, of Worcester.
Paskiewski said Dotteror broke away and the instructor tried to stop Dotteror who was heading toward the surface too quickly.
Dotteror told the policeman that Kalinowski had come to him underwater and took his extra regulator. After Kalinowski took two breaths from it, he handed it back, the Worcester man said.
After Dotteror took two breaths, Dotteror said, Kalinowski took the regulator back. When he refused to return it, Dotteror started for the surface.
Another scuba diver, Shane Duclas of Chicoppee, told police he later brought Kalinowski up after finding him on the barge's deck.
The man did not have a regulator to an air tank in his possession, Duclas said.
The men interviewed by Fitzgerald and Conners estimated Kalinowski was underwater for 15 minutes.
Local police notified the state police detectives assigned to investigate unattended deaths for the Essex County District Attorney's Office. They also contacted Belmont police to notify the dead man's family.
The state's Medical Examiner's Office took jurisdiction of the case, with an autopsy scheduled to determine the cause of Kalinowski's death.
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Marc
