A post mortem will be carried out on the body of a man who died in a scuba diving accident yesterday evening.
The incident happened shortly before 6pm when two snorkelers got into difficulty in Ardmore in County Waterford.
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Emergency services were alerted, and crew from the Coast Guard Rescue helicopter airlifted the men to safety.
One of the men, a man in his late 30s, was transferred to Waterford University Hospital where he later died.
The other man was uninjured.
A post mortem is expected to take place later this morning.