Diving Fatality in Bonaire?

[Daly]

Has anyone heard of a divng fatality in Bonaire very recently? Perhaps 1 death and another critical injury?

Daly



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[Life-Is-Good-Diver]

Has anyone heard of a divng fatality in Bonaire very recently? Perhaps 1 death and another critical injury?

Daly



edited for crappy spelling

Cant say we did, My wife and I took a vaction first week in July to Bonaire, and did't hear anything back then, beautiful place to dive, island could use some fixing up, but nice place to dive. Took some great pictures with my Oly 5060, and shot some nice video, had over 40 dives in the week, with the wife having close to 15 !!! But no i havnt heard anything about annyone dieing while under scuba latley

 

[ianr33]

According to Bonairetalk a lady by the name of Sallie Hudson died in early september

http://www.bonairetalk.com/newsgroup/messages/30/180309.html?1095515479

 

[Rick Inman]

According to Bonairetalk a lady by the name of Sallie Hudson died in early september

http://www.bonairetalk.com/newsgroup/messages/30/180309.html?1095515479

Here is the relevant post from this web site:

"To all you have expressed their concern about Gary and Sallie Hudson.
Gary was released from the hospital Friday and was able to fly back to Miami with friends John and Tracy Bennett.
According to the doctors in Bonaire that treated Gary he was the worst case of DCS that they had ever seen. He is very lucky to be alive. He still is experiencing some edema in his legs and brain, and tingling in his extremities which will all take time to go away. Hopefully he will have no long term physical problems.

I have not seen or talked to Gary yet however, I have talked to Tracy about the accident. While diving at 75'to 90' Sallie was experiencing trouble with water in her mask. She apparently was not having any success in keeping the water out and had to clear it constantly which was causing her to become agitated. She also started to have problem with one of her regulators. At this time we are not sure if trouble she was having with the regulator was a real problem or self induced by her state of mind. It appears that she possibly started to panic. Gary tried to assist her but unfortunately Sallie was now in a serious (deadly) state of panic. While Gary was trying desperately to help she knocked his mask off and by the time he was able to find it and get it on she was out of his sight. At this point Gary assumed she was heading to the surface so he made rapid ascent. When he surfaced he and didn't see her so he dove back down now to a depth of 115'. Once down he again couldn't find her so he made a second rapid ascent and on the way up found her on a ledge in about 10' with her mask off and regulator out of her mouth.
At this point in time it has not been determined if Sallie drowned as a result of panic or some other cause.

Sallie and Gary had given themselves the trip to Bonaire to celebrate their third wedding anniversary.
Sallie was a kind and sweet friend to all she met and a loving wife to Gary. She will be missed terribly.

Joe "

 

[damianjames]

This is the case, I knew her personally. About the nicest woman you could ever meet.

 

[Kestrell]

This is so terribly sad.

My heart goes out to her family.

Please, lets all be safe out there.