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News story - in Spanish: Ahogado turista de EU
Sounds like he left the group of 8, ascended alone, surfaced, then resubmerged, maybe - google translating as it is. Found dead 3 hours and 4 miles away.
Google translation...
News story - in Spanish: Ahogado turista de EU
Sounds like he left the group of 8, ascended alone, surfaced, then resubmerged, maybe - google translating as it is. Found dead 3 hours and 4 miles away.
Google translation...
COZUMEL, September 2 .- After getting lost for three hours, while diving in front of the reef beach club "Nachi Cocom," Gerald Kish, 54 years old, was found floating, lifeless face of the reef zone "San Francisco", four miles away from where he disappeared. According to information provided by the Cozumel Reefs National Park, a protected area where the tourist diving was of U.S. origin, the legal representative of Del Mar Acuatic, reported the disappearance of a foreigner, at 11:30 am on Friday .
He explained that at the time of being in front of the reef beach club "Nachi Cocom," the staff of the boat "Big Splash" by the company Acuatic Del Mar, was serving eight divers who enjoyed the beauty marine area.
In this sense, about 11:30 am, a sailor who was in the boat noticed that one of the divers, in this case Gerald Kish, came to the surface and then submerge again, so from that then it will not be seen again.
The American left the group to reach the surface, so that about 12:00 pm when all the divers got into the boat, they realized that one of the visitors emerged and it was Gerald Kish.
Since that time the crew of the boat "Big Splash" began the search, without carrying the seven remaining land divers, who were supported by elements of the Military Naval Sector and the harbormaster.
In this sense, after three hours of searching, about 14:30 hours the crew of the boat "Big Splash" lifeless body was found near the reef, "San Francisco."
Before the discovery, the boat staff gave to the authorities, carrying the lifeless body after the United States to land in the vicinity of the reef "San Francisco", which was already prosecutors of Common Jurisdiction
The staff of the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) of the Attorney General of the State, raised the body and carried it to its facilities to perform the autopsy for, but not before noting that the victim probably died from drowning