Tennessee diver dead off Pensacola Florida

[DandyDon]

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A Tennessee man died Sunday after diving in the Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola Beach.
Roger Greer, of Clarksville, Tenn., 64, was being towed in to the dive charter boat "Wet Dream" owned by Scuba Shack when he rolled over in the water and became unresponsive, said Scuba Shack owner Eilene Beard.
"It's a complete bafflement to everybody," said Beard. "He had resurfaced from a successful dive and he swam to the safety line, and they were pulling him in when all of a sudden he just rolled over face down in the water."
Greer came to Pensacola with a 14-person dive group from Clarksville dive shop Waterdogs Scuba & Safety LLC, Beard said.
When they noticed him floating face down in the water, Greer's fellow divers helped get him aboard and began performing CPR while they went back in to shore.
Beard said Greer hadn't ingested any water.
According to Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Mike Clausen, Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation agents arrived and took over CPR.
Greer was then transported to the Naval Hospital on Hwy. 98, where he was pronounced dead.
The divers were at the site of the shipwrecked S.S. San Pablo, some nine miles off Pensacola Beach in about 80 feet of water.
Beard said the group had just completed their second dive when Greer became unresponsive.
An owner of Waterdogs, who declined to give his name, said Greer had been a certified diver since 1995 and that he was "a very skilled diver," and that Greer's death appeared to be the result of a "catastrophic medical event."
"I could tell you what the expected probability of what happened is," the man said. "But we just don't know for certain, and we would be speculating if we said otherwise."

 

[nolatom]

Sorry to hear, and condolences to the family. Wet Dream and Scubashack are good people. The San Pablo is more generally known as the "Russian Freighter" dive, and it's a good dive.

We will find out the cause eventually, and for now it seems as though everyone responded and did all they could.

 

[Thomas8294]

I know the people at Waterdogs and they are extremely good. They did everything they could to help. My condolences as well to the family of Mr. Greer. He was extremely well liked by those not only in the Clarksville diving community but the community as a whole.