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Anyone know about anything about the German woman from Playa that died while diving in Cozumel on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009?
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Scuba"D";4880029:She seemed to be happily snapping pictures as the instructor pointed out various fish. We were about to go through a swim-thru at about 70' and I noticed her flailing a little, trying to get air in her BCD. It looked like she was having buoyancy problems. I was way ahead but kept looking back about to swim back to her when someone swam to her and shot some air in her BCD. They communicated a bit and I though all was okay. I turned and went through the swim-thru. That was the last I saw of her until the end of the dive.
I spoke with the man that helped her and the rest of it was what I got from him. She went through the swim-thru and was flailing more, almost crawling in the water. At that point it appeared like she was in a daze so he did an emergency ascent and brought her to the surface. She was not breathing and didn't have a pulse. They got her on the boat and began CPR. She was rushed to shore and went to the clinic. I was told they never got a pulse. I heard the equipment was checked out okay and as of Wednesdy the 24th, they didn't know what went wrong. Very scary.
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