Diver dies trapped in wreck in Gran Canaria

[emoreira]

Una submarinista de 30 años muere atrapada en un buque hundido en La Luz
A female diver dies trapped inside a wreck at 40 mts depth.
The young woman penetrated into a cabin of the fishing boat 'El Narcótico', located about 40 meters deep next to the Reina Sofía dock.

 

[Lostdiver71]

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A 30-year-old diver died on Saturday morning after being trapped in the cabin of a sunken fishing boat about 40 meters deep in the Reina Sofía dock in the port of La Luz. The Group of Underwater Activities Specialists (GEAS) of the Civil Guard tried to locate and recover the body for hours without success. Work will resume this Sunday.

The events occurred around eleven o'clock in the morning when the victim was participating in an excursion that plunged into the back of the aforementioned dam, at the height of the area known as los arenales. The intention was to see the ship called 'El Narcótico', whose real name is Soo Yang, which sank on December 15, 1990 in the outer sub-dam of the León y Castillo dock. This wreck is next to two others, the Ifafa and the Clavado.

It was her colleagues who gave the alert a few minutes after eleven in the morning. The Salvamar Nunki Maritime Rescue boat, as well as the GEAS team of the Armed Institute, immediately began work to try to rescue the diver.

The divers were submerged for several hours with the support of the aforementioned boat. However, with dusk, the operation was suspended due to the impossibility of accessing the cabin where the young woman is. According to sources close to the device, the search will resume first thing in the morning.

This area is highly appreciated by divers attracted by this set of ship wrecks and especially by this 65-meter-long fishing boat, built in 1974 in the Huelva shipyards, according to the website www.grandio.org.

 

[DandyDon]

Forgive my confusion, but did this happen in Spain? The title says Gran Canaria which is the largest of the Canary Islands I think, but isn't La Luz on the Atlantic coast of the mainland over 800 miles away from those islands?

 

[j0rd1]

Forgive my confusion, but did this happen in Spain? The title says Gran Canaria which is the largest of the Canary Islands I think, but isn't La Luz on the Atlantic coast of the mainland over 800 miles away from those islands?

Is in Gran Canaria (Spain). La Luz is the name of the port.

 

[DuTemplar]

Forgive my confusion, but did this happen in Spain? The title says Gran Canaria which is the largest of the Canary Islands I think, but isn't La Luz on the Atlantic coast of the mainland over 800 miles away from those islands?

Port of Las Palmas - Wikipedia

The port of Las Palmas is also known as La Luz. English version Canary Islands news...
Scuba diver dies trapped in a sunken wreck in Gran Canaria

 

[oceancurrent]

So, the cause of this accident is overhead environment penetration with siltout by a diver unqualified to dive overhead environments?

 

[fsardone]

So, the cause of this accident is overhead environment penetration with siltout by a diver unqualified to dive overhead environments?

Technically those are contributing factors. The cause of the incident was failure to surface before air exhaustion due to ... being unable to exit the overhead environment.

 

[Raphus]

So, the cause of this accident is overhead environment penetration with siltout by a diver unqualified to dive overhead environments?

Are there any informations about her qualifications?

 

[BlueTrin]

Tragic Death Of Marine Expert In Gran Canaria Ship Graveyard

Apparently she was a PhD student specialising in Marine Currents.

This link seems to have a video of the wreck but I didn’t see a description about when this footage was taken.

 

[boulderjohn]

There are different levels of entering an overhead environment, and differing levels of training and experience required. Many times a diver of pretty much any ability can swim through 10 feet of open space from one side of the wheel house to another. At the other extreme are wreck entrances that require extreme skill and training. We would need to know both the diver's skill/training level and the difficulty of the penetration to make any sort of judgment about the suitability of the diver's decision.

Let's look at one quote from the report:

The divers were submerged for several hours with the support of the aforementioned boat. However, with dusk, the operation was suspended due to the impossibility of accessing the cabin where the young woman is.

It sounds to me as if this was a very advanced penetration.

EDIT: The post above mine appeared seconds before mine was posted. This quote from the new article suggests it was, indeed, a seriously difficult penetration.

According to the Spanish Civil Guard, the victim’s body was found trapped in slime, metal structures, old ropes and other equipment. It was only recovered the following day.​