Worker cleaning Ohio pond pulled from water dies

NEW ALBANY, Ohio (AP) — Officials say a man who was pulled from the water in a central Ohio retention pond has died.

The Columbus Dispatch reports a Michigan man in his 20s was using scuba equipment Tuesday to clean a 15-foot-deep pond at an office complex in New Albany, northeast of Columbus. When he didn’t resurface when he was supposed to, a fellow worker called for help and said the man’s tank had likely run out of oxygen.

Plain Township Assistant Fire Chief Jack Rupp said the man wasn’t breathing when he was pulled from the pond just before 5 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken to a nearby hospital and died shortly after.

The man, whose name hasn’t been released, was employed by Indiana-based U.S. Aqua Vac, which cleans bodies of water.