Argentine diver dies diving in Cozumel

[WSOPFAN]

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COZUMEL, November 13 .- Again records the death of a foreigner in the waters of Cozumel, Jóse Struch, 65-year-old Argentine citizen, was killed when he was diving on the reef "Santa Rita" located in the vicinity of hotel "Great Western", according to preliminary data from the authorities, the death might be due to decompression, but still missing the results of the autopsy. When they arrived on the scene elements Attorney General of the State (PGJE), Public Ministry of Common Law (MPFC) and as agents of the State Judicial Police (PJE) who investigate the facts as given.
According to information gathered at the scene, witnesses mentioned that the tourist diving on the reef "Santa Rita", when he began to seek help staff craft Express Dive Paradise Dive company and stating that a person was in the sea without knowledge.
So he immediately gave notice to the authorities, rescue body arriving on board the ambulance hyperbaric chamber, who gave first aid abroad for later transfer you to the clinic facilities of the same name, where all efforts were in vain, that he had no vital signs.
This is the second death occurs within 48 hours of tourists diving, the first was on Saturday when abroad William Bill Fox, 49, was diving on the reef Santa Rosa, located in the vicinity of beach club "Mine" when a suffocation by drowning was killed by what authorities are already investigating the cases.

 

[heavierthanlead]

Argentine tourist dies of decompression, in Cozumel

(Google translate):


COZUMEL, November 13 .- Within 24 hours the second case there was a tourist who was killed while practicing decompression diving up to the Occidental Grand hotel, where he was staying. The authorities remain pending an autopsy, since there could be some irregularity with oxygen tanks.
According to the Judicial Police commander in Cozumel, around eleven o'clock on Sunday, they were notified that in the hyperbaric chamber facilities, was the body of a person who had died just minutes before.
According to data collected by the judicial authorities, the deceased Joseph Strauch, 65-year-old native of Argentina, was staying at the Occidental Grand hotel known and was just enjoying a holiday.
Just after 11 am it was reported that one person had been moved from the vicinity of the hotel to the hyperbaric chamber, since he was practicing diving, when he suddenly fell ill and decompression.
Despite the efforts of paramedics and specialists in clinical hyperbaric chamber was not possible to save the life of Argentina, so it was partly to ministry officials, who arrived at the place mentioned to attest to the facts.
Note that the Judicial Police Commander, Peraza Pech said that will be conducting relevant research, and in less than 24 hours was recorded the second decompression, which caught the attention of the authorities. The dive team belongs to one of the hotel shops.

 

[ahava]

Argentine tourist dies of decompression, in Cozumel

(Google translate):


COZUMEL, November 13 .- Within 24 hours the second case there was a tourist who was killed while practicing decompression diving up to the Occidental Grand hotel, where he was staying. The authorities remain pending an autopsy, since there could be some irregularity with oxygen tanks.
According to the Judicial Police commander in Cozumel, around eleven o'clock on Sunday, they were notified that in the hyperbaric chamber facilities, was the body of a person who had died just minutes before.
According to data collected by the judicial authorities, the deceased Joseph Strauch, 65-year-old native of Argentina, was staying at the Occidental Grand hotel known and was just enjoying a holiday.
Just after 11 am it was reported that one person had been moved from the vicinity of the hotel to the hyperbaric chamber, since he was practicing diving, when he suddenly fell ill and decompression.
Despite the efforts of paramedics and specialists in clinical hyperbaric chamber was not possible to save the life of Argentina, so it was partly to ministry officials, who arrived at the place mentioned to attest to the facts.
Note that the Judicial Police Commander, Peraza Pech said that will be conducting relevant research, and in less than 24 hours was recorded the second decompression, which caught the attention of the authorities. The dive team belongs to one of the hotel shops.

The only thing that I understand in this article is that someone went divivg and died. Oh, and his name.

 

[buton]

i can help u with the translation, in conclusion:

his name was Jóse Struch 65 years old, he was diving "santa rita " Reef, he was diving with on the boat Dive Express who owners are Dive Paradise. he was unconscious on the water, they transfered him to the hospital, doctors did everything they could to save him..

this other source
Por Esto! | Yucatán

says in conclusion:

Police states that there might be irrgularityes with the OXYGEN TANKS they are waiting for the autopsy report. since they new york diver accident was less than 24 hrs before.


so again tanks could be?

 

[Chris12day]

I hope the authorities impounded the tank and take it to the mainland for a complete compositional analysis. Not having the ability to measure the contents of the air in a tank on the island is not good enough.

If it is bad air due a failure in the compression and filling process, a difinitive answer must be found!

Safe Diving

 

[DandyDon]

I hope the authorities impounded the tank and take it to the mainland for a complete compositional analysis. Not having the ability to measure the contents of the air in a tank on the island is not good enough.

If it is bad air due a failure in the compression and filling process, a difinitive answer must be found!

Safe Diving

Spent much time in Mexico? It's quite different down there, and some things are just not possible, others not likely. I doubt they could do much on the mainland either.

There are two companies in the US capable of testing tank air samples, but of the cases of suspected bad air there in recent years - if any were ever tested completely, we never saw any results.

 

[swamp diver]

I hope the authorities impounded the tank and take it to the mainland for a complete compositional analysis. Not having the ability to measure the contents of the air in a tank on the island is not good enough.

If it is bad air due a failure in the compression and filling process, a difinitive answer must be found!

Safe Diving

In an ideal world the tanks would be secured by police and a full gas analysis using an accredited laboratory would be done in the case of all fatalities. This is what currently happens in our province of Ontario but this is not the case in all our provinces.

Unfortunately in places like Mexico you will be hard pressed to find any analytical services for compressed air except in Mexico City. In 2005 there was a double CO fatality in Tulum involving a US physician and Canadian citizen. All that could be found in the PDC-Tulum corridor was a colorimetric Draeger tube despite both consulates getting involved. When it was suggested the tanks be sent to the capital for analysis they were found to have been mysteriously emptied while in police hands. The dive op which filled the tanks shut down for a day or two but was up and running shortly thereafter as if nothing happened.

You're on your own in Mexico and in most of the tropics where justice typically goes to the highest bidder. Diver beware.

 

[WSOPFAN]

November 14 .- COZUMEL diving houses, free of guilt before the Public Ministry of Common Law (MPFC) for the death of two foreigners in recent days, when scuba divers who were killed, necropsies revealed that the death of the two people was by asphyxiation by drowning and decompression.

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[scubavaquera]

Was your original article (translated) and this last one from Por Esto, or another local paper? Just curious.

 

[Tigerman]

Another tragic accident, but the translations from google translate is hillariously bad though. Didnt know Argentina had died, nor that a country ever could