Brockville Diver Death

[Ayisha]

The Ontario Underwater Council has an incident report available now on Chantal Theriault's death a few weeks ago. What is in the report is basically what I heard when I was diving in Brockville last weekend. The 2011 Incident Report can be found at http://www.underwatercouncil.com/downloads/incident_reports/ouc_report_of_ontario_scuba_diving_incidents_in_2011.pdf

Condolences to Wayne and Chantal's family and friends. She was such a warm, enthusiastic young woman. She will be missed.

 

[JayJudge]

On the document, it says 'not a scuba related incident' - I had gotten an email from Wayne regarding her passing, but no information as to the cause.

 

[fdog]

That wasn't very helpful.


All the best, James

 

[Dr Wu]

So many pages to say "someone died".

 

[Ayisha]

Chantal's name and entire incident report has been removed in the last 24 hours from the OUC 2011 Incident Report that I linked to above. It was there 25 hours ago when I posted it. It does not seem very professional to simply remove the incident after it was investigated as a scuba accident and made public. Chantal was found on a Friday after being missing since Wednesday. She was found drowned in 7 feet of water and partially clad in scuba gear. If Chantal's death has been deemed to be a suicide as some people think or due to some other cause, then you could perhaps write that in a follow-up to the report.

 

[Ayisha]

On the document, it says 'not a scuba related incident' - I had gotten an email from Wayne regarding her passing, but no information as to the cause.

That statement "not a scuba related incident" seems to have been before it was removed entirely from the document.

Wayne and Mark sent emails. Wayne also posted his email a couple of weeks ago on Ontario Diving and someone else posted it on the passings forum on Scubaboard. What Wayne said in the email and post regarding Chantal's death was:

Myself and the 1000 Islands Pleasure Diving family has suffered a great loss. The life of Chantal Theriault was suddenly taken from us this past week in a diving accident. She was a wonderful part of our team and my life, and she will be greatly missed.

bold added

 

[DandyDon]

Chantal's name and entire incident report has been removed in the last 24 hours from the OUC 2011 Incident Report that I linked to above. It was there 25 hours ago when I posted it. It does not seem very professional to simply remove the incident after it was investigated as a scuba accident and made public. Chantal was found on a Friday after being missing since Wednesday. She was found drowned in 7 feet of water and partially clad in scuba gear. If Chantal's death has been deemed to be a suicide as some people think or due to some other cause, then you could perhaps write that in a follow-up to the report.

Wow - amazing. Yeah, I saw it when you first posted it. Now it's just gone.

 

[cruiser]

Another good reason to post the article in addition to the link. Don't know if it was possible in this situation though since I don't know the format of the original report.

 

[DandyDon]

Another good reason to post the article in addition to the link. Don't know if it was possible in this situation though since I don't know the format of the original report.

Same PDF format. We see news stories vanish on the net but who would have thought that they'd pull this?

 

[mjb0430]

I copied the initial report to my hard drive. I can't post the link because it is 402KB and max allowed is 400kb. Not sure if this what folks are looking for. Mike



Date of Incident: 2011-06-10
Summary:
Ms. Chantal Theriault of Rockport, ON was found on Friday after having been missing for a week. Ms. Theriault was the life partner of Wayne Green of Thousand Islands Pleasure Diving. According to Mr. Green, Chantal was found with scuba gear on, in 7 feet of water, at Point Traverse.
No information is available at this time as to the cause of death. A coroner’s investigation is expected. Police are treating this as an accident at this time.
This incident will be updated if more information becomes available.
This incident is not related to a near miss which occurred on the weekend. See notes below under near misses.
OUC Recommendations:
 Do not dive solo.
 Inform someone of your dive plans and expected time of return.