Overview
- Rescue teams tried to save the man late Tuesday, but efforts were unsuccessful.
- The victim and his dive partner were at less than ten meters depth, which police say points to a likely medical event.
- Police report no sign of third-party involvement and have opened a forensic cause-of-death investigation.
- Investigators have secured the diver’s equipment as part of the evidence-gathering process.
- The lake is a heavily visited Northern Europe dive site and this is its second death this year after a 34-year-old Dutch diver died in May following an emergency ascent.