The Herald combined the two stories and ran them today. I made the sections bold that I felt were pertinent to the outcome of the incidents. Reading the Herald's story, it doesn't look like the woman had a MI but more likely an AGE or pneumothorax trauma.
Two die while scuba diving in Keys - 01/01/2008 - MiamiHerald.com
THE KEYS
Two die while scuba diving in Keys
Two visitors to the Upper Keys died in unrelated scuba diving incidents.
Posted on Tue, Jan. 01, 2008
BY CAMMY CLARK
cclark@MiamiHerald.com
KEY LARGO --
Two separate commercial scuba trips in the Upper Keys ended tragically the past two days with the death Sunday of a 50-year-old woman from Maryland and the death Monday of a 51-year-old man from Wisconsin, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
''It's not that unusual considering the [number] of visitors in the Keys during the holiday season,'' said sheriff's homicide detective Terry Smith, who is investigating both cases.
On Sunday, Nancy Kreiter of Bel Air, Md., had just completed a dive at the Benwood Wreck about five miles off Key Largo.
She took off her fins and began climbing the ladder into the commercial dive boat, Reef Adventures.
She suddenly stopped breathing, collapsing into the water around 4 p.m.
The boat's crew got her into the vessel and performed CPR until a nearby faster boat from Quiescence Diving Services came on the scene and took her to shore.
Paramedics met the boat at Port Largo Homeowners Park, where Kreiter was pronounced dead.
In Monday's diving incident, the name of the male victim from Marinetta, Wis., is being withheld until his family has been notified.
The man was diving on the Gulf Stream Eagle out of the Atlantis Dive Center and had already completed one dive on the Duane Wreck.
He got into trouble during his second dive on the nearby Bibb Wreck. They are sister 327-foot Coast Guard cutters submerged about five miles off the coast of Key Largo.
The man's diving buddy, Randy Gray, whom he met on the boat, told investigators they had been in the water about 25 minutes and were surfacing.
They did a safety stop and Gray said he left about a minute before the victim did.
Gray said he surfaced and was getting help removing his equipment from a crew member when they noticed the victim face down near the surface.
The man was pulled on board and crew members began performing CPR. The Coast Guard responded to a distress call and took the victim to shore, where he was pronounced dead at about 12:30 p.m.
Autopsies will be performed on both victims to determine cause of death.
For Kreiter, it was a tragic end to a 10-year dream to learn to dive. Her husband, David Clissold, told deputies that his wife and two children all came to the Keys to learn diving.
The family became open-water certified two days earlier at the John Pennekamp State Park dive shop.
Kreiter was paired with her 14-year-old son, Tyler, and Clissold was diving with their 20-year-old daughter, Kara.
They were exploring the wreck of the Benwood, a cargo ship that was transporting phosphate rocks when it collided with another ship and was then torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II.
Smith said Tyler took his mom's death particularly hard, especially considering he was her dive buddy.
Clissold told deputies his wife had no major medical problems, but had been taking ibuprofen for a chest cold in which congestion was so bad she had torn cartilage from her ribs while coughing, Monroe County Sheriff's spokeswoman Becky Herrin said.
In 2007, there were 14 diving-related deaths in the Keys -- 11 involving scuba diving and three involving free diving.
Among them were three men from New Jersey who died while diving the USS Spiegel Grove off Key Largo in March.
