Endurance diver dies in accident during training

FRENCH free-diving champion Loic Leferme died yesterday in a training accident off Nice on the Mediterranean coast.

Leferme, 36, suffered heart failure when the rope pulling him to the surface at the end of a practice dive snagged, colleagues said.

“The rope got caught on something under the water, I have no idea what,” said Cedric Palerm, who was on the accompanying boat.