Diver dies off Bell Island
A man airlifted to hospital Sunday has been pronounced dead.
Bell Island and Holyrood RCMP say that a man who was airlifted by a Search and Rescue helicopter to the Health Sciences Centre has been pronounced dead.
The 62-year-old diver, who experienced trouble in Lance Cove, off Bell Island, Sunday morning was declared dead a short time later.
A spokesman for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax says the Cormorant and the inshore rescue boat based in the area responded to a call of an unresponsive diver at about 11 a.m. The chopper landed at the Health Sciences Centre helipad at about 11:40 and transferred the patient to a waiting ambulance to be taken to the hospital
The man’s death is not considered suspicious. The RCMP is continuing its investigation.