Of all the dive deaths I know about, I find this one to be the saddest
. So many lessons can be learned from this accident.
1. How over weighting can begin a chain of events.
2. How quickly a diver can progress on the stress curve.
3. How a panicky diver can become the most dangerous creature in the ocean.
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. So many lessons can be learned from this accident. 1. How over weighting can begin a chain of events.
2. How quickly a diver can progress on the stress curve.
3. How a panicky diver can become the most dangerous creature in the ocean.
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[FONT=Arial, Times New Roman]BY ANN HENSON
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A 36-year-old Pennsylvania woman died Sunday while diving in 25 feet of water at Molasses Reef.
Monroe County Medical Examiner Michael Hunter said he will conduct an autopsy today to determine why AAA died.
AAA was on a dive trip aboard an Ocean Divers vessel with her two children, ages 10 and 13, and a dive club buddy, BBB, he said Monday.
BBB told deputies that after they all entered the water, AAA told him she had on too much weight and he helper her drop some of the weights, reports say.
"Suddenly she began to panic. She began fighting him in the water, at one point climbing on top of him and pushing him under the water," reports quoted BBB.
BBB told deputies he tried to inflate his buoyancy compensator to help keep her head above water, then he and the children began to call for help. By the time she was pulled aboard the dive boat, AAA was not breathing, reports say.
A doctor aboard the boat began CPR, but paramedics who met the boat at a Port Largo park pronounced AAA dead at 2:45 p.m., reports say.
Ocean Divers manager Joe Angelo declined to comment on the incident.
AAA was an office and marketing manager at Renaissance Psychological and Counseling Corp. in Kingston, Pa., according to Dr. John Reinhardt, who is affiliated with the corporation. BBB also works there.
AAA was the eighth person to die in a diving incident in the Florida Keys this year, according to the Sheriff's Office.
ahenson@keysnews.com
Monroe County Medical Examiner Michael Hunter said he will conduct an autopsy today to determine why AAA died.
AAA was on a dive trip aboard an Ocean Divers vessel with her two children, ages 10 and 13, and a dive club buddy, BBB, he said Monday.
BBB told deputies that after they all entered the water, AAA told him she had on too much weight and he helper her drop some of the weights, reports say.
"Suddenly she began to panic. She began fighting him in the water, at one point climbing on top of him and pushing him under the water," reports quoted BBB.
BBB told deputies he tried to inflate his buoyancy compensator to help keep her head above water, then he and the children began to call for help. By the time she was pulled aboard the dive boat, AAA was not breathing, reports say.
A doctor aboard the boat began CPR, but paramedics who met the boat at a Port Largo park pronounced AAA dead at 2:45 p.m., reports say.
Ocean Divers manager Joe Angelo declined to comment on the incident.
AAA was an office and marketing manager at Renaissance Psychological and Counseling Corp. in Kingston, Pa., according to Dr. John Reinhardt, who is affiliated with the corporation. BBB also works there.
AAA was the eighth person to die in a diving incident in the Florida Keys this year, according to the Sheriff's Office.
ahenson@keysnews.com
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My heart goes out to the family and to all involved.
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