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TheSpec - Diver dead after accident in Lake Ontario near...
OAKVILLE An autopsy will be held today on the body of a man who died as a result of a diving accident in Lake Ontario.
The man whose name has not been released died of his injuries at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital Wednesday afternoon after he was pulled from the lake by police marine officers.
An autopsy is scheduled at Hamilton General Hospital today.
His name is not being released at the request of his family, said Sergeant Dave Cross of Halton police.
A second man injured in the accident is in fair condition in the same hospital, Cross said.
A dive boat with three men is believed to have been about two kilometres from shore and in about 85 metres of water when something went wrong.
Cross said police received a distress call at about 3 p.m. and police marine units from Halton, Peel and Toronto responded and located three men with the boat.
The divers were brought by police to a pier at the end of Navy Street, near the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek.
The man who died in hospital was pulled from the water without vital signs by the Toronto police marine unit. The second man was brought to shore by the Peel police marine unit.
Its been reported the three men were planning to dive to the wreck of the Jesse Anne, a steel tugboat from the 1880s which had been converted to a barge and later eventually intentionally sunk off the Oavkille harbour.
A police vessel towed a dive boat with the word Aquaholic.ca on the side into the harbour.
Aquaholic.ca is the web address of a dive charter company, which runs regular dive charters and excursions to the shipwrecks of the lower Great Lakes, the Niagara and lower St. Lawrence rivers. The organization also offers scuba instruction.