Rocketmahn
Contributor
HURON CO. Michigan -- The Huron Co. Sheriff’s Department reportsthe following:
Around 11:15 am Sunday, 46 year old Daniel M. Kleinert of Munger was scuba diving with 3 other friends 6.5 miles north northeast of Harbor Beach.
He and a partner were down about 140’, on the 140’ shipwrecked schooner “Dunderberg”, while the other 2 were preparing to also go under. His partner sensed that Daniel was having trouble and apparently Daniel had become unresponsive.
Preliminary investigation is indicating that his partner inflated Daniel’s buoyancy control vest, which raised him to the surface. Daniel was then found by the other 2 friends at about 11:25 am, floating on the surface. They immediately contacted the Harbor Beach Coast Guard Station by radio, to summons help while they tried to revive Daniel. The Harbor Beach Coast Guard arrived and transported him to Harbor Beach, where the Eastern Huron Ambulance Service was waiting.
Daniel was pronounced dead at the Harbor Beach Hospital a short time later.
Deputy Sheriff Sgt. James Hunt and Deputy Tyler Ramsey will be investigation the incident. Huron County Medical Examiner Dr. Richard Lockhard has ordered an autopsy, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday at the Huron Medial Center in Bad Axe. This investigation will continue.
The Dunderberg wreck, which sank after colliding with another ship in 1868, sits off the coast of Port Hope more than six miles north-northeast of Harbor Beach about 140 feet below the surface.
Around 11:15 am Sunday, 46 year old Daniel M. Kleinert of Munger was scuba diving with 3 other friends 6.5 miles north northeast of Harbor Beach.
He and a partner were down about 140’, on the 140’ shipwrecked schooner “Dunderberg”, while the other 2 were preparing to also go under. His partner sensed that Daniel was having trouble and apparently Daniel had become unresponsive.
Preliminary investigation is indicating that his partner inflated Daniel’s buoyancy control vest, which raised him to the surface. Daniel was then found by the other 2 friends at about 11:25 am, floating on the surface. They immediately contacted the Harbor Beach Coast Guard Station by radio, to summons help while they tried to revive Daniel. The Harbor Beach Coast Guard arrived and transported him to Harbor Beach, where the Eastern Huron Ambulance Service was waiting.
Daniel was pronounced dead at the Harbor Beach Hospital a short time later.
Deputy Sheriff Sgt. James Hunt and Deputy Tyler Ramsey will be investigation the incident. Huron County Medical Examiner Dr. Richard Lockhard has ordered an autopsy, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday at the Huron Medial Center in Bad Axe. This investigation will continue.
The Dunderberg wreck, which sank after colliding with another ship in 1868, sits off the coast of Port Hope more than six miles north-northeast of Harbor Beach about 140 feet below the surface.