Rebreather Fatality - Spain

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The body Macía diving instructor Alexis , 44, was recovered yesterday from the seabed by professed passion transmitted to hundreds of students in the classrooms of your company Diving Cies Islands. Just when you met 24 hours after his partner lost the trail after plunging both in the wreck of the Sea of Marin , the fishing sunk in April 2014 at the southern entrance of the Ria de Vigo, friends involved in your search, divers experts like him, located the body near the bow of the boat. Members of the Panel of Underwater Activities (Geas) of the Civil Guard were responsible hoisted to the surface to transfer then to the port of Vigo, where they awaited many acquaintances of Alexis and sport divers participating in the outings organized by the Vigo each end of week.

Alexis lay on the sand a few meters from the bow of the fishing submerged at a depth of 52 meters, according to team members who participated in the search. And carried the complete equipment for the development of a specific type of technical diving that allows stay long in the background leaning on a closed circuit breathing gas known by the anglicized "Rebreathers" (recyclers). In the absence of a more thorough analysis of the team, along with an autopsy will determine what caused the death of this veteran diver, equipment control of respirable mixtures reflected a data base for a possible hypothesis: "the indicator showed 0 "according to participants in tracking members.

Without ruling out a failure of these control equipment, which may have provided false readings during the dive, expert divers also friends of the deceased recognized this newspaper that given the proven experience of the late "is hard to believe that Alex despistase and had just consumed in excess ". Stress that was one of the pioneers in Galicia in this type of technical diving and even among his many qualifications, had the instructor of that mode.

The crawl, which started on Saturday afternoon , resumed yesterday morning. In addition to boats and Civil Guard Maritime Rescue and companions of the deceased, the Geas firefighters and divers joined Vigo. On land the GES Val Miñor also made crawls. In the afternoon the body was found.
 

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