This is now posted over in the accidents section. But to keep everyone up on the info, the preliminary autopsy reports were released..
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Autopsy reveals nothing abnormal after divers death
Published: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8:24 AM EDT
By STACY LANGLEY
Tribune Staff Writer
HURON COUNTY The preliminary autopsy results on the 46-year-old Munger man who was pronounced dead at Harbor Beach Hospital on Sunday after scuba diving a shipwreck with friends revealed nothing abnormal.
Huron County Sheriff Kelly J. Hanson said the investigation will now focus on the dive equipment used by Daniel M. Kleinert, who was scuba diving Sunday morning about 6 1/2 miles northeast of Harbor Beach when he became unresponsive.
(Kleinerts) equipment, will be taken to a dive shop to have the dive tank checked and tested and have all the equipment looked at, Hanson said Monday afternoon. So far all we have is the preliminary autopsy results that show nothing abnormal. The toxicology results are going to take a bit longer that might show something. We dont know yet.
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Kleinert was
diving with a partner about 140 feet in the water on the shipwrecked schooner called the Dunderburgh, which sank in 1868.
Police report two other divers with Kleinert were preparing to go under, when Kleinerts partner sensed Kleinert was having trouble and Kleinert had become unresponsive in the water.
Preliminary investigation by police has revealed
the dive partner, whose name has not been released,
inflated Kleinerts buoyancy control vest, which raised him to the surface.
Kleinert was
then found by the other two friends at about 11:25 a.m. on Sunday floating on the surface of the water. The Harbor Beach Coast Guard was radioed for help by the friends.
Hanson said the two friends attempted to revive Kleinert at the scene while they waited for the Coast Guard to arrived. Kleinert was transported by the coast guard to Harbor Beach, where the Eastern Huron Ambulance Service was waiting. Kleinert was pronounced dead at the Harbor Beach Hospital a short time later.
The autopsy was conducted Monday at Huron Medial Center in Bad Axe.
Hanson said the matter remains under investigation.