00:00A Taiwanese scuba diver died in Japan on Saturday while on an international volunteer mission to salvage World War II-era remains.
00:0857-year-old Xu Wei lost consciousness and suffered convulsions after his diving equipment failed.
00:14Xu was pronounced dead at a hospital later that day.
00:17His volunteer group was diving in western Japan at a site of a 1942 undersea coal mine cave-in that killed 183 people, most of them Koreans.
00:27The dive group will pause dives this month in light of the incident.
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