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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.
The DAN fatalities workshop of 2011 found that there is a real problem that divers do not follow the procedures they have been trained in, and dive significantly beyond their training, experience, and fitness levels, and that this was the basic cause of most accidents. In litigation involving diving accidents, the legal panel reported that 85% ...
The Wildrake diving accident was an incident in Scotland in August 1979 that killed two American commercial divers. During a routine dive in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea , the diving bell of the diving support vessel MS Wildrake became separated from its main lift wire at a depth of over 160 metres (520 ft).
By PIX11 EAST MEADOW, N.Y. -- What began as a day trip to Jones Beach on May 17 ended in near tragedy for 17-year-old Nico Fiorello. "I dove in and then hit the ground with my head and then after ...
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 champion rower has died while free-diving. According to a GoFundMe page, shared last week, 27-year-old Austin Regier died in the Philippines on November 14, 2024. "He was swimming with new ...
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]
Oregon tight end and Sacramento native Spencer Webb died in an apparent cliff diving accident near Triangle Lake on Wednesday. Oregon’s Lake Creek Falls, near Triangle Lake, is seen in March 2016.