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A man has been taken to the hospital after being underwater for two hours inside a vehicle submerged in the Connecticut River in Holyoke.Authorities say the man drove off a boat launch into the river at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday. He may have been trying to take his own life.He was pulled from the vehicle just after 8:30 p.m. and taken to Baystate Medical Center.A woman who was in the vehicle escaped and made her own way back to the riverbank.Rescue boats, dive teams and a helicopter were all called to search the river.No names were released. The vehicle was towed from the water.