   ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1996 DECEASED WAS ON A PADDLEBOAT WITH HIS BROTHER AND A COMPANION.  THE COMPANION LOST HIS FOOTING AND BUMPED THE DECEASED AND HIS BROTHER INTO THE WATER.  A WITNESS WAS ABLE TO RETRIEVE DECEASED'S BROTHER FROM THE WATER BUT WAS UNABLE TO HELP HIM.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED REMOVED HIM FROM THE 10 FOOT DEEP CANAL AFTER BEING SUBMERGED ABT. 15 MINUTES AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
    UPON ARRIVAL, WITHOUT A PULSE, COLD EXTREMITIES AND FIXED PUPILS.  HE WAS INTUBATED, MEDICATIONS WERE ADMINISTERED AND CPR CONTINUED.  AN EKG SHOWED ELECTROMECHANICAL DISSOCIATION.  HE WAS DEFIBRILLATED SEVERAL TIMES AND CPR CONTINUED BUT TO NO AVAIL, HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 5:29 P.M..