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A 47-year-old American tourist died Friday morning while diving off North West Point, Royal Cayman Islands Police reported.
At about 9.30am the woman was diving at the Little Tunnel Dive site off the coast of West Bay. As she ascended she appeared to get into difficulty and, on surfacing, lost consciousness, police said.
Staff from Red Sail Sports administered CPR as they brought the woman to shore to meet with the emergency services.
The woman was conveyed to the Cayman Islands Hospital in George Town, where she was found to be dead on arrival.
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You need to have your glottis open, exhaling (or "active breathing") really has little or nothing to do with it. The idea is to prevent a lung overpressure injury, which may not, if your lung are not full, be that great a volume.
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Actually, if I were going to speculate on a cause just based on the meager details provided in the story, I would lean towards cardiac incident. Diver over 45, had incident at surface or while surfacing at end of a shallow, easy dive...but that is just pure speculation. A bad air incident would typically affect more than one diver on the boat and would happen earlier in the dive, not at the end. Hopefully we will eventually get more details or an update from Red Sail about the details of the incident.
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Originally Posted by Mark Derail
