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Diving fatality data published in Diving Medicine for Scuba Divers (2015) [3] 90% died with their weight belt on. 86% were alone when they died (either diving solo or separated from their buddy). 80% were men. 50% did not inflate their buoyancy compensator. 25% first got into difficulty on the surface; 50% died on the surface.
On 1 November 2020, PADI Open Water Diver Linnea Rose Mills [1] drowned during a training dive in Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, while using an unfamiliar and defective equipment configuration, with excessive weights, no functional dry suit inflation mechanism, and a buoyancy compensator too small to support the weights, which were not configured to be ditched in an emergency.
By 2011, it seemed unlikely that McDaniel's body would be found in the cave. McDaniel's parents began considering the possibility that he had died as a result of foul play, and that his diving disappearance was staged to cover up a crime. Or, perhaps he had been found dead by the dive shop staff, who feared the consequences of that discovery.
By the time the scuba dive boat sank off the Southern California coast after catching fire, 34 people had been killed in the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history. Now four years ...
A scuba dive boat captain was ordered Wednesday to pay about $32,000 in restitution to the families of three of the 34 people killed in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019. Wednesday’s restitution ...
This category is for deaths that occurred as a direct result of underwater diving, and those occurring from non-diving causes when the individual was involved in this activity. For deaths caused by diving in the sense of jumping into water, see Category:Diving deaths.
A federal judge heard arguments Thursday over whether a boat captain should pay restitution to the families of 34 people killed in a California scuba dive boat fire in 2019, with prosecutors ...
The 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident was a scuba diving incident on 28 May 1973 at a flooded sinkhole known as "The Shaft" near Mount Gambier in South Australia.The incident claimed the lives of four recreational scuba divers: siblings Stephen and Christine M. Millott, Gordon G. Roberts, and John H. Bockerman. [1]