GLOUCESTER, Mass (10 Feb 2003) -- A 50-year-old scuba diver from Belmont was pronounced dead at a Gloucester hospital yesterday morning after he was found without his breathing apparatus in 85-foot-deep water off the Gloucester coast, officials said. The diver, Anthony G. Kalinowski of Payson Road, was exploring a shipwreck about 300 yards off the coast in 38-degree water. He was diving with nine other people from a Gloucester-based dive boat, the Cape Ann II, when another diver in the group noticed he was missing, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Adriano Agostino and Belmont police. About 10 minutes after the Coast Guard rescue boat arrived at the dive site at 11:10, another diver from the group found Kalinowski on the ocean floor without a dive mask covering his face or a regulator in his mouth, Agostino said. ''He was probably without oxygen for between 10 and 20 minutes,'' Agostino said. Kalinowski was not responsive when the diver brought him to the surface. | | Cape Ann Diver II He was rushed to shore and a Gloucester fire crew took him to Addison Gilbert Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A representative of Cape Ann Divers, which charters the Cape Ann II, declined to comment on the death. |
