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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.
The Caribbean diving disaster was an incident in February 2022 in which a group of five divers working for the Paria Fuel Trading Company were sucked into a pipeline from a hyperbaric chamber. One diver managed to crawl to safety and sought help, but the other four were left to die, with no attempt being made to rescue them due to safety ...
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.
David Pleace, 57, died while scuba diving to a shipwreck in Scotland after part of his equipment disconnected. Scuba diver’s death preventable if equipment was properly checked, coroner says ...
A man died Wednesday while scuba diving at a popular shipwreck site, the third tragedy this month in Florida Keys waters. The tragedy happened two days after the U.S. Coast Guard called off a ...
High winds also damaged large swaths of forest and crops, mostly affecting the banana industry. Iris killed 24 people in Belize, including 20 who died when a scuba diving boat capsized near Big Creek. The storm also killed eight people and damaged about 2,500 homes in neighboring Guatemala, and later dropped heavy rainfall in southern Mexico ...
A scuba diver who had been reported missing died Saturday after being rescued off the coast of Laguna Beach in Orange County, authorities said.
On 25 January 1998, the Lonergans were scuba diving with a group at St. Crispin's Reef [7] in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The boat transporting the group to the dive site departed before the Lonergans returned from the water. None of the vessel's crew or passengers noticed that the two had not returned to the boat. [8]