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If a person is scuba diving and suffers a fatal heart attack will the body float up to the surface or sink to the bottom of the ocean?
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If you are Scuba diving and then suffered from a heart attack, initially your body would sink to the bottom due to the diving equipment, the weighted belt, and other items. After death as your body starts to decompose it would bloat, filling up with gases, and depending upon how heavy the equipment and the weight belt that you were wearing, this would most likely cause your body to float partway to the surface, or fully to the surface depnding upon if the gases released by your decomposing body are sufficent enough to counteract the weight of any and all scuba equipment you are wearing or carrying.
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