    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  DECEASED AND HIS WIFE WERE CRUISING ABOARD THE M/S SENSATION CRUISESHIP.  ON DECEMBER 6, 1996 THEY HAD DINNER AND RETURNED TO THE CABIN WHEN HE BEGAN COMPLAINING OF FEELING COLD AND STOMACH PAINS.  SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, HE COLLAPSED TO THE FLOOR.  A NURSE WAS SUMMONED AND FOUND HIM WITH A FAINT PULSE.  HE WAS TAKEN TO THE INFIRMARY WHERE HE WAS INTUBATED AND MEDICATIONS WERE ADMINISTERED.  CHEST MONITOR SHOWED ASYSTOLE RHYTHM..  CPR CONTINUED BUT TO NO AVAIL, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 12:59 A.M.
     DECEASED WIFE STATED THAT HE HAD NOT COMPLAINED OF ANY PROBLEMS PRIOR TO EXPIRATION.  HE WAS BEING TREATED BY DR. PALMER AND HAD A HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION WHICH WAS WELL CONTROLLED.