
It seems that many time we think of diving accidents as dives related with tech diving, or extreme diving… but dying at just 4 meters of water… 100 meters from shore… is simply sad and concerning. Specially when the victim was a mom spending Mothers Day diving…
here is what the Australian Press is saying [...]
May 12, 2010 | Posted in
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We all love to dive in Thailand, and for sure Scuba Diving in Thailand is a must if you are seriously into diving.. but if you have ever been in Thailand, you may well know that THAI boat Drivers are bloody insane… and well, today, I’m afraid we have another horrible accident, thanks to [...]
January 12, 2010 | Posted in
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Israel Navy commander Adm. Eliezer Marom has convened a panel to investigate how a soldier in the advanced stages of training as a naval commando drowned early yesterday in a routine three-meter training dive at Ashdod Port. Sgt. Gal Azoulay, 19, of Zichron Yaakov, was diving at the time with the rest of his team [...]
December 10, 2009 | Posted in
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Well, why not? At the end of the day, you can only get 1 year in Jail if you decided to kill your wife in a Scuba Diving Honeymoon. Gosh… because that’s what any NORMAL Killer will plan. mmm… let me get married with this wanna-be-scuba-chick and then let’s take her to a medium-difficulty wreck [...]
June 13, 2009 | Posted in
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Eagle Creek – USA resident Juana Marian Gilnett, 42, died as a result of a scuba diving accident in Hood Canal east of Seattle in northwestern Washington.
Gilnett had been diving with a 44-year-old Portland resident Bryan Southard on the afternoon of Sunday, March 22, near Sund Rock, when the two lost track of time and [...]
April 8, 2009 | Posted in
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Divers found the body of a missing scuba diver in Blue Hole, a renowned dive site in Belize.
Authorities told ScubaHerald the body has not yet been recovered and identified, however, they believe the remains are an American doctor from Miami, Florida, who disappeared while scuba diving at Blue Hole in 2001.
The divers, who found the body [...]
January 14, 2009 | Posted in
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According to the Marion County Florida Sheriff’s Office, the body of Sean Patrick Spiegel, 25 of Pace, who went missing during a dive with friends about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, was found after two days of searching by about a dozen divers, including members of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team and other professionals.
Spiegel, a [...]
November 18, 2008 | Posted in
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A 48-year-old male Japanese tourist who died on Tuesday in New Caledonia following a severe diving accident has been identified as a Matsumoto Hiroaki from Kobe, local radio reports.
Meanwhile, an inquiry has been launched in order to determine the circumstances surrounding what has been described as a rare diving accident.
Several witnesses have already been interrogated.
The [...]
September 27, 2008 | Posted in
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New Zealand: Two scuba divers had to swim up to three hours after their boat sank near Howe Point, in the Bay of Islands.The two men went diving at 1.45pm but when they failed to return at 10.30, one of the men’s partners rang the Coastguard.Duty officer Katherine Andrews said the Coastguard boat Daydream searched [...]
September 27, 2008 | Posted in
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Aqua Lung USA is recalling Titan DIN 1st Stage Scuba Regulators and Titan/Conshelf DIN Scuba Adaptors sold nationwide from January 1997 to September 2008. Over-tightening of the DIN retainer by a technician during installation can result in the retainer breaking under pressure, a rapid escape of air from the scuba cylinder, and the regulator detaching [...]
September 13, 2008 | Posted in
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We don’t want to be Ironic, but it seems that us, divers, we believe that we can simply dive any wreck in the world.. and sometimes we may forget that some wrecks may be, are not suppose to be dives. Well, today another diver died in the Andrea Doria.
This time, is was Houston man has [...]
August 2, 2008 | Posted in
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Jayne Bloom, 38, an IT consultant and experienced diver, is believed to have suffered a fatal attack of the “bends” while exploring Second World War wrecks off the remote islands of Micronesia.
She was diving with her fiancee Jeffrey Keep, a diving instructor, in the Truk Lagoon, a 50 mile stretch of water full of Japanese [...]
July 31, 2008 | Posted in
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Taken from News.com.au – Australia:
MIRACLE dive couple Richard Neely and Allyson Dalton told the truth about their 19-hour ordeal at sea, a top-level investigation has found.
Investigators, in a soon-to-be-released report, have backed the version of events by the British scuba instructor, 38, and his American girlfriend, 40.
The experienced divers – with 2000-plus underwater dives each [...]
July 30, 2008 | Posted in
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Mmm so we wonder who is next in this great season of missing divers.
Three British divers who were swept away with two other Europeans during a dive off Indonesia have been found safe after managing to swim to a remote beach on an island 25 miles away. The 36-hour ordeal saw them carried to the [...]
June 9, 2008 | Posted in
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Three British divers who were swept away with two other Europeans during a dive off Indonesia have been found safe after managing to swim to a remote beach on an island 25 miles away. The 36-hour ordeal saw them carried to the neighbouring island by strong currents while they waited for their dive boat to [...]
June 9, 2008 | Posted in
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