BARNEGAT, N.J. (AP)
Fellow crew members aboard the Tuna Seizure fishing boat found
Gene Wite around 2:15 p.m. Saturday in rough seas about 30 miles
east of Barnegat in Ocean County. The 42-year-old Middletown man
was about 125 feet below the water, and one crew member notified
the Coast Guard while others got Wite on board and tried
unsuccessfully to resuscitate him.
A rescue helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic
City took Wite to their headquarters, where he was pronounced dead
shortly after 3 p.m.
It was not known why Wite lost consciousness, and an autopsy was
to be performed. The Coast Guard said Wite was on his second dive
of the day for the Tuna Seizure.
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