Diver dies Wednesday after ocean trip near Hillsboro Beach

[WetDawg]

Anyone hear any details yet?

Diver dies Wednesday after ocean trip near Hillsboro Beach

 

[letterboy]

This states the inciedent was Tuesday afternooon.

Doctor Dies After Scuba Diving Off Hillsboro Beach - West Palm Beach News Story - WPBF West Palm Beach

Doctor Dies After Scuba Diving Off Hillsboro Beach
Broward Sheriff's Office Investigating Death

POSTED: 2:04 pm EDT August 18, 2010
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HILLSBORO BEACH, Fla. -- Broward Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating the death of a physician who went scuba diving off Hillsboro Beach.

Dr. Dreux Dwyer, 53, of Deerfield Beach, was pronounced dead at North Broward Medical Center shortly before noon Wednesday.

Detectives said Dwyer went into distress while on a dive boat Tuesday afternoon.

A sheriff's deputy took Dwyer to shore, where he was transported to the hospital.

The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.

 

[Jax]

OP's story
Diver dies Wednesday after ocean trip near Hillsboro Beach
By Linda Trischitta, Sun Sentinel
1:16 p.m. EDT, August 18, 2010

HILLSBORO BEACH —
Broward Sheriff's detectives are investigating the death Wednesday of a 53-year-old diver who became distressed at sea near Hillsboro Beach the day before, authorities said.

The Broward Sheriff's Office identified the diver as Dreux Dwyer, a physician from Lexington, Kentucky, who also has ties to Deerfield Beach.

Dwyer was pronounced dead at North Broward Medical Center at 11:54 a.m., sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal said.

A Broward Sheriff's Office marine unit deputy heard a VHF radio report of a diver in distress around 1 p.m. Tuesday, according to police.

Dwyer was aboard Scubatyme III according to police.

The owner of the dive boat, who rents a slip at Sands Harbor Resort & Marina, did not respond to messages asking for comment.

Leljedal said the sheriff's marine unit met Scubatyme III and transported Dwyer to the Hillsboro Inlet. Paramedics waiting from Pompano Beach Fire Rescue transported him to the hospital.

Because the investigation is not complete, Leljedal said he could not provide additional details about what happened to Dwyer.

Diver dies after ocean trip aboard Scubatyme III near Hillsboro Beach - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

 

[JetDiverFL]

He was solo diving??? where's his budy??
Why he died?

 

[DennisS]

He was solo diving??? where's his budy??
Why he died?

Buddy was probably on the dive boat with him unless they left him at sea. The boat was headed in and met by Sherrifs office boat and victim was transferred, the article does not say whether his buddy was transferred to the sherrifs boat with him.

 

[Garrobo]

What the hell has the boat got to do with it? So a couple more died while diving off the same boat or after returning to the boat. It's not the boat's fault.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

And I did not see it stated that he was diving solo. And if he was so what? It sounds like it occurred on the boat. Heart attack? Stroke? AGE? No info so it may not even be related to the dive. He could have had a heart attack out of nowhere, it does happen. Solo is irrelevant. And if he had a bad buddy the coronary could have happened while he was yelling at him in which case he'd have been better off solo!

 

[Rick Murchison]

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[bilsant]

I'm not aware of the ME's report being published yet, but conversation with some folks familiar with the dive boat, Divemaster, and event tell me that indications are breath hold during ascent led to an embolism.

I have no direct knowledge and have not seen the report.

 

[ndboi]

I dive with Scubatyme and they are a well run and safe outfit. Sounds like diver error on ascent or unrelated to the dive all together. Either way, the fact that the dive boat got him transferred to a Sheriff's Vessel right away is good to know...