     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON JULY 4, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS KAYAKING BEHIND THE SHERIDAN BAL HARBOUR HOTEL IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.  ABOUT 5:30 PM THE KAYAK OVERTURNED AND THE DECEASED MANAGED TO GET OUT AND STARTED SWIMMING TO SHORE.  SUDDENLY HE WENT UNDER THE WATER AND DID NOT COME BACK UP.  HE WAS PULLED FROM THE WATER ABOUT 10 TO 20 MINUTES LATER.  
     FIRE RESCUE ARRIVED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO MIAMI HEART INSTITUTE.  HE ARRIVED IN THE E/R IN ASYSTOLE ON THUMPER.  HE WAS INTUBATED, CPR CONTINUED AND PLACED ON VENTILATOR.  HIS VITAL SIGNS WERE RESTORED, BUT HE REMAINED COMATOSE.  CHEST X-RAY REVEALED INCREASED BILATERAL PULMONARY PARENCHYMAL MARKING.  EKG REVEALED EITHER AN IDIOVENTRICULAR OR JUNCTIONAL RHYTHM WITH SOME ECTOPICS.  CT BRAIN SCAN REVEALED BILATERAL CEREBRAL EDEMA, BUT NO HEMORRHAGING OR MIDLINE SHIFT.  HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE CARDIAC CARE UNIT.  
     ON JULY 5, 1996 HE REMAINED COMATOSE, UNRESPONSIVE TO VERBAL OR NOXIOUS STIMULI.  AT 12:25 PM HE DEVELOPED BRADYARRYTHMIA AND AN EXTERNAL PACER WAS PLACED.  CPR INITIATED, BUT TO NO AVAIL AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 1:50 PM.
     THE DECEASED HAD NO SIGNIFICANT PAST MEDICAL HISTORY AND WAS A SWIMMER.  
