Belizewoman
Registered
Hi fellow divers,
My true name is Linda Cazin Burrow and am a young 64 years of age. I am in my 2nd year of diving with about 50 dives completed. Diving has become quite a passion. Most of the time I live in Placencia, Belize with a few Summer months in Indianola, WA, which is near Seattle, USA.
On Monday, Jan 3 while diving the Blue Hole, an incident occurred that has me feeling like the world's luckiest diver. I became disoriented and dysfunction. I couldn't manage to accend and felt myself sinking. Avadon Dive Master, Claudia, arrived out of nowhere (like an angel) and safely brought me up to the surface.
My dive computer indicated my dive was a safe one, decompression wise, but I probably had nitrogen narcosis in combination with a cardiovascular event, a heart attack. I felt crushing chest pain on the way up and for a good hour afterward. The Avadon crew was amazing as they worked as a team to administer O2 and arrange transport by boat, helicopter and ambulance to Belize City. All the while, some crew tended to the remaning drivers, who were served lunch and later made two more dives, but at different locations than originally planned that were close to the helicopter pad. The dive operator, Anne Marie NcNeil, stayed with me until my husband arrived at my side at a Belize City hospital.
Hats off to all of Avadon Diver's for their excellence as a dive company and most as caring capable people.
I am being dicharged today and am now feeling quite well. I truely hope to dive again. But if not, I may see some of you on a dive boat sometime with my most complicated equipment being a snorkel.
My true name is Linda Cazin Burrow and am a young 64 years of age. I am in my 2nd year of diving with about 50 dives completed. Diving has become quite a passion. Most of the time I live in Placencia, Belize with a few Summer months in Indianola, WA, which is near Seattle, USA.
On Monday, Jan 3 while diving the Blue Hole, an incident occurred that has me feeling like the world's luckiest diver. I became disoriented and dysfunction. I couldn't manage to accend and felt myself sinking. Avadon Dive Master, Claudia, arrived out of nowhere (like an angel) and safely brought me up to the surface.
My dive computer indicated my dive was a safe one, decompression wise, but I probably had nitrogen narcosis in combination with a cardiovascular event, a heart attack. I felt crushing chest pain on the way up and for a good hour afterward. The Avadon crew was amazing as they worked as a team to administer O2 and arrange transport by boat, helicopter and ambulance to Belize City. All the while, some crew tended to the remaning drivers, who were served lunch and later made two more dives, but at different locations than originally planned that were close to the helicopter pad. The dive operator, Anne Marie NcNeil, stayed with me until my husband arrived at my side at a Belize City hospital.
Hats off to all of Avadon Diver's for their excellence as a dive company and most as caring capable people.
I am being dicharged today and am now feeling quite well. I truely hope to dive again. But if not, I may see some of you on a dive boat sometime with my most complicated equipment being a snorkel.
