A post-mortem examination failed to reveal the cause of death of the 60-year-old Axel Schoeller who died while scuba diving in Paralimni, authorities said on Friday.
There was no sign of suffocation or drowning found by state examiners Angeliki Papeta and Orthodoxos Orthodoxou, the Famagusta police spokesman Steve Theodoulou said.
But samples were taken for histopathological and toxicological examination to investigate whether a pathological cause preceded it.
“The cause of death of the 60-year-old is expected to be determined upon completion of laboratory tests,” the officer said.
Police received an alert around 1pm on Thursday about a dead diver in the Golden Coast area.
According to authorities, Schoeller, an Austrian national and permanent resident of Paralimni, had gone diving with a friend in search of a ship wreckage.
His body was spotted bobbing in the water. The coast guard arrived on the scene and brought the man ashore.
Schoeller was rushed to Famagusta general hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.