(July 27, 2017) Sixty-one years after it sank to the bottom of the Atlantic 45 miles southeast of Nantucket, the Andrea Doria has claimed another life.

Steven Slater, 46, of Gateshead, England, was pulled from the water following his dive on the wreck of the Italian luxury liner Monday afternoon. Crew members on his dive boat performed CPR for two hours, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. Slater was pronounced dead when his body was returned to shore in Montauk, N.Y. Tuesday.

He is the 18th person to die on the wreck since it sank in 1956.

“He was down on the wreck and suffered an equipment malfunction and surfaced very quickly,” Coast Guard chief warrant officer James Deal said. “It was an acute case of decompression sickness.”

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