Volunteer diver heart attack

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From Emergency diver resued after heart attack - Pekin, IL - Pekin Daily Times

CREVE COEUR, Ill. —
A local park district’s police chief helped apply CPR to restore the pulse of a volunteer diver who apparently went into cardiac arrest Monday morning while working to retrieve a vehicle that had slipped into the Illinois River.
Mike Johnson, chief of the Fondulac Park District Police Department in East Peoria, said the diver, in his mid-50s, was conscious when he was rushed shortly before noon to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.
Citing the need to notify family members first, Johnson declined to identify the diver, who is a member of the Peoria County Underwater Dive Team. The man’s condition was not available Monday afternoon.
He was helping other team members recover a vehicle that had slipped into the river off a boat ramp at the Captain Ron’s tavern at 579 Wesley Road at about 1 a.m. Monday when he suffered the arrest, Johnson said.
“When he floated to the top, we pulled him out and began CPR (cardio-pulmonary rescuscitation) and got a pulse back,” Johnson said.
The vehicle was empty when it slid into the water, Johnson said.

I used sporting goods snorkel gear to dive on a ton truck & trailer in 8 feet of water on a boat ramp once in the 70s - to hook up the cable to the frame, then to drive it out with wheels straight. It was amazing to be young, stupid, and lucky.