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Other news stories mention that the man was from Co Limerick was a member of a voluntary search and rescue unit in North Cork.
Diver dies off Roches Point despite rescue efforts · TheJournal.ie
Diver dies off Roches Point despite rescue efforts · TheJournal.ie
A DIVER HAS died after being recovered by a lifeboat at Roches Point in Co Cork last night.
The volunteers of Crosshaven RNLI were called to the scene by a group of divers in a dive boat just after 6pm when the man became unresponsive during the course of a dive.
The lifeboat met the dive boat on its way back to shore at Fort Camden in Cork Harbour and the man was moved to the lifeboat for swift transfer.
The lifeboat crew immediately took over first aid before they were met ashore by Crosshaven RNLIs Dr John Murphy and Crosshaven Coast Guard.
Crosshaven Coast Guard had been contacted to prepare a helicopter landing site at at the GAA pitch on Camden Road but this was not required.
The man was then transferred to the national ambulance service who took him to hospital where later he died.