Lake Travis Fatality@Windy Point

[tlessard]

If anyone would care to come by to say hello or do a dive, I took the day off and will be out doing 3 tanks with my brother tomorrow at WPP. I plan on being there around 11 or noon. Just an open invite in case anyone cares to come out!

-Trey

 

[song]

RE: death certificates

From what I remember in med school, the cause of death is the actual thing that does a person in (drowning) but the certificate also lists precipitating factors (heart attack). He might not have survived if the heart attack had occurred on dry land, but then drowning wouldn't be the cause of death.

Another example would be my brother, who had a house looking out on Windy Point when he died. The primary cause of death was a stroke, which was precipitated by undiagnosed (& therefore untreated) high blood pressure found by changes on the autopsy. Both are listed on the certificate.

 

[pops]

Well, there's a lesson to be learned here. Diving, like flying and motorcycle riding, is a safe sport when approached with careful preperation and constant attention to equipment and environment and awareness of one's limitations. A moment of stupid carelessness or indescretion gets punished like nothing we've seen in Texas since Judge Roy Bean.
I feel no fear at all in the water, which maybe isn't good - overconfidence for a beginner. Still will dive though, I want to see the Mansfield dam intakes.

 

[JohnStrr]

I was there too, we left about three hours before this happened. As a new diver this was a real eye opener, to have something tragic happen to someone doing excactly what you were, in the same place, and at the same time. My father said that when he read the paper that morning he started crying and almost had a heart attack himself, as they didn't say the man's age until the end of the article. My condolences go out to all who knew him. I'm glad I found this thread though, I've been thinking about this since it happened, with no other info than what was in the paper, which wasn't much. Conditions were not the best and it was pretty cold below the second thermo at about 60'.

Anyways, God bless.