Pyramid65
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Just got a text from a buddy...he was at Dutch yesterday 4/24/16 and helped cut the suit off a guy....don't have any details...tried doin a search but only previous deaths came up
Incident At Dutch Springs
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I was at Dutch yesterday (was underwater when it happened), but heard from someone involved that he left with a pulse and a stable cardiac rhythm on the monitor. Have been Googling for something but so far nothing. Hopefully that's good news, if he survived it would be less likely to make the papers. 
The title of this thread is extremely unfair to Dutch Springs, and as of 8PM last night the diver was alive and in the chamber. I do not know his current status, as we all know how rapidly that can change.
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I was told that he's a 60 YO, who surfaced after a very short dive with foamy blood in his mouth.
[speculation]
The victim and buddy were diving. *Something* happened at depth, so that the victim left the buddy (assuming without notification, because the buddy probably would have surfaced with him) and ascended to the surface. *IF* the *something* were dramatic, such as a medical event, it is very possible the victim incurred a lung-over expansion injury on the way up, resulting in the bloody froth.
[/speculation]
[rumor] The victim was resuscitated by advanced life support at the hospital. [/rumor]
I pray that the rumor is true.
The victim and buddy were diving. *Something* happened at depth, so that the victim left the buddy (assuming without notification, because the buddy probably would have surfaced with him) and ascended to the surface. *IF* the *something* were dramatic, such as a medical event, it is very possible the victim incurred a lung-over expansion injury on the way up, resulting in the bloody froth.
[/speculation]
[rumor] The victim was resuscitated by advanced life support at the hospital. [/rumor]
I pray that the rumor is true.
iamrushman
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good luck and best wishes for those involved with this incident....
GREAT NEWS!!!!
from a person at the scene who followed up with the EMS:
"after talking to one of the EMS responders that the diver did survive. A weak pulse was discovered after her was loaded into the ambulance. He was flown to Penn and placed in a hyperbaric chamber and treated for arterial gas embolism. My apologies for reporting he was not able to be revived or pronounced dead. That is the report.we were given by one of the first responders. Two things amaze me here...1) how can reports right at the scene be wrong..although the diver did look.to be in dire Straits and resuscitation did not look hopeful. And 2) how amazing EMS personally are that knowing and witnessing an event like ths that these professionals can respond and resuscitate an individual on even the most hopeless situations. Outstanding!!!!"
from a person at the scene who followed up with the EMS:
"after talking to one of the EMS responders that the diver did survive. A weak pulse was discovered after her was loaded into the ambulance. He was flown to Penn and placed in a hyperbaric chamber and treated for arterial gas embolism. My apologies for reporting he was not able to be revived or pronounced dead. That is the report.we were given by one of the first responders. Two things amaze me here...1) how can reports right at the scene be wrong..although the diver did look.to be in dire Straits and resuscitation did not look hopeful. And 2) how amazing EMS personally are that knowing and witnessing an event like ths that these professionals can respond and resuscitate an individual on even the most hopeless situations. Outstanding!!!!"
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