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I don't know how well Google translated it, but Wikipedia offers this for decompesation...A tourist from Alaska died diving on a beach in Cabo San Lucas, suffering a decompensation to eight feet deep. Cabo San Lucas, BCS-Robert Allen Wilkinson, 60-year-old native of Alaska, who had arrived two days to Los Cabos, staying at the Wyndham with his son Aaron Wilkinson, 27 years of age. Both had hired a morning walk on the vessel Pacific, departing from the port of the city, heading to Bahia de las Gaviotas. Upon reaching the beach near El Chileno, the boat does stop to provide service to snorkel, where they finished down the makeshift divers at a depth of eight meters, where Robert suffered a decompensation. The captain of the vessel Pacific, called Daniel Torres Olvera, 35 years old, from the state of Michoacan, who said he went down there and saw the tourist that he was unconscious, with his visor full of water, so I immediately began to climb. Once lifted him to the boat, called the emergency services, but the stranger did not respond further.
In medicine, decompensation is the functional deterioration of a previously working structure or system. Decompensation may occur due to fatigue, stress, illness, or old age. When a system is "compensated", it is able to function despite stressors or defects. Decompensation describes an inability to compensate for these deficiencies. It is a general term commonly used in medicine to describe a variety of situations.
Noticiabos "[URL="http://noticabos.org/2013/02/19/turista-fallece-de-infarto-buceando-en-los-cabos/":Turista fallece de infarto buceando en Los Cabos[/URL]"]...Robert sufrió una descompensación. ...con su visor lleno de agua....
I believe the word "decompensación" generally means "clearing" rather than "decompression". Entirely different. I'm a Portuguese speaker, and we use the term "compensar" to refer to equalization (e.g., mask, ears, etc.), so as a reasonably fluent foreign speaker of Spanish, I believe the term "compensación" is used for this in that langugage. Given the mention of water in the mask, the word could have been used to refer to the victim's failure to clear the mask. Respiratory distress is a feature of heart failure, so it would make sense that a victim of a heart attack underwater would have difficulty clearing the mask.... seems to say that decompression was at fault....