Atlanta woman dies after diving accident in Ginnie Springs

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I couldn't find anything in previous posts on this.

Austin spoken-word poet near death after diving accident

Does anyone from Florida know what went wrong on the 14th? Apparently, she was diving near Ginnie Springs with some friends and got into trouble. I just can't find much information on it anywhere.

I knew Shannon in high school and, like everybody else, just want to try to understand what happened to her.

She really was a gifted poet, and also a gifted singer.
 
Big thread on ThedecoStop
The Deco Stop

Some of it useful,much of it not.

Sadly she did not survive.

Why can't the people at TDS have a conversation about something without it turning into a full out, my balls are bigger then yours so I must be right ego match?
 
This does not appear to have been posted before. IMHO, it really gives us all food for thought on the tendency to assume that someone in 20 ft of water is going to be OK while we continue our dives.

Atlanta woman dies after diving accident in Ginnie Springs

By APRIL DUDASH, Alligator Staff Writer
A woman died Monday morning at Shands at UF after she was found unresponsive at Ginnie Springs June 14.

Shannon Lewis, a 20-year-old student from Atlanta, went cave diving at the springs with two other divers, said Deputy Tracy Taylor with the Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office.

She was having trouble equalizing the pressure in her ears, and her friends took her back to the entrance of the cave, which was more shallow at 20 feet deep, Taylor said.


The two divers went back in the cave, leaving her at the entrance where she was found unresponsive by a passing diver who noticed her face looking up at him, he said.

When two passing divers got her back to the platform, she wasn’t breathing, her lips were blue, and she had no pulse.

“What happened down there, we still don’t really know,” Taylor said.

A doctor from Tampa, a respiratory therapist, a Gainesville EMT and two men with CPR training helped her before she was flown to Shands.

Taylor has stayed in touch with Lewis’ family throughout the incident.

“She had a little too much of a fight on her hands, and her body couldn’t take it,” Taylor said.
 
Thanks for this info Marvel, but really! How many times do we have to say it? DO NOT LEAVE YOUR BUDDY!!! Maybe we have to start tatooing this on people? What a waste!

Trish
 


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Anyone know how experienced or trained she was? News articles are not dependable, we know - for example one linked here said while cave diving off the Florida coast... I have to wonder if it was a cave dive, cavern, and was she/they qualified for that...?

My home bud called a day of diving recently when he could not clear to 20 ft, and I did escort him to the surface and out of the water, but then - it was a practice dive I didn't really care much about, not enough to find a new buddy and go down. One a dive I wanted to do, I would hope I'd be as diligent, but I've had times that I ascend alone after using most of my air after passing my bud off to another.
 
Anyone know how experienced or trained she was? News articles are not dependable, we know - for example one linked here said while cave diving off the Florida coast... I have to wonder if it was a cave dive, cavern, and was she/they qualified for that...?

My home bud called a day of diving recently when he could not clear to 20 ft, and I did escort him to the surface and out of the water, but then - it was a practice dive I didn't really care much about, not enough to find a new buddy and go down. One a dive I wanted to do, I would hope I'd be as diligent, but I've had times that I ascend alone after using most of my air after passing my bud off to another.

Follow the TDS link, that will give you the info you seek. She was cave certified, shadowing a class, had ear problems, instuctor escorted her to the log at the eye, she ended up at the ear apparently trapped by a log, a tuber or snorkeler and others helped free her.
 
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