Saint-Raphaël fatality - France

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On the country's southern Mediterranean coast...

Var : accident de plongée mortel à Saint-Raphaël

Var : accident de plongée mortel à Saint-Raphaël

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Var: fatal diving accident in Saint-Raphaël​

He had just completed a 20-minute dive to 35m, it will be his last. A diver died this morning in the Saint-Raphaël sector, at the tip of Trayas, announced the Maritime Prefecture of the Mediterranean.

This 65-year-old man, an experienced diver, obviously practiced his passion in a private setting, outside the structure. He suffered a cardio-respiratory arrest when he got out of the water. The person accompanying him alerted the Regional Operational Center for Mediterranean Surveillance and Rescue (Cross Med) around 9 a.m.

Despite the care provided by the firefighters, the arrival of the SNSM star from Saint-Raphaël and the engagement of a French Navy helicopter from Hyères with a medical team from the Sainte-Musse hospital in Toulon on board , he was pronounced dead at the scene.