      ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS A 
CREW MEMBER ON THE SAILING VESSEL "JEHOVAH YEIAYEL" SAILING OUT OF HAITI. THE VESSEL HAD BEEN HELD IN PORT AT THE MIAMI BOAT YARD BY THE COAST GUARD UNTIL SEVERAL CODE VIOLATIONS WERE CORRECTED. ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1996, AT ABOUT 9:00 AM, AS THE VESSEL WAS DOCKED AT THE BOAT YARD, THE DECEASED WAS REPORTEDLY  IN THE ENGINE ROOM BELOW DECK ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR A GENERATOR. HE REPORTEDLY STOOD IN SEVERAL INCHES OF WATER WITHOUT SHOES AS HE ATTEMPTED TO MAKE THE REPAIRS. A FELLOW CREW MEMBER HEARD HIM SUDDENLY YELL OUT AND FALL TO THE FLOOR OF THE DECK. THEY  RUSHED OVER TO HIM, HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE. THEY CARRIED HIM TO THE UPPER DECK AND EMERGENCY RESCUE UNITS WERE CALLED,  THEY RESPONDED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. 
	UPON ARRIVAL HE WAS INTUBATED, ON THE THUMPER WITH NO 
SPONTANEOUS RESPIRATION OR MOVEMENT, THE CARDIAC MONITOR SHOWING VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION. THERE WAS NO BLOOD PRESSURE NO PULSE, NO RESPONSE TO RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS. DEATH WAS PRONOUNCED AT 10:11AM.   


                                             **** REFILED:  MAY 16, 1997 tec  ****