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Scuba Diver Died Sunday in Monterey
Info from CA Accident & Injury Blog:
AUGUST 4, 2009 - A 49-year-old man died after swimming to the surface and pleading for help off McAbee Beach on Cannery Row, authorities said. Alec Piplani of San Jose was scuba diving when he surfaced about 11:30 a.m. and yelled for help, witnesses said. Not long afterward, he stopped breathing, according to the Monterey County coroners office. Piplani was treated at the scene by bystanders and rescue crews, then taken by ambulance to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, where he died. Piplani had not been diving in about three years and had no known medical conditions, associates said. An autopsy is pending
My sister and her family were kayaking in the bay and saw folks performing CPR on this diver. Lots of people were still in the water diving.
Does anyone know what happened here? Was an uncontrolled ascent involved at some stage of the incident? (I ask this because a couple of descriptions said the injured diver "popped up" to the surface)
Info from CA Accident & Injury Blog:
AUGUST 4, 2009 - A 49-year-old man died after swimming to the surface and pleading for help off McAbee Beach on Cannery Row, authorities said. Alec Piplani of San Jose was scuba diving when he surfaced about 11:30 a.m. and yelled for help, witnesses said. Not long afterward, he stopped breathing, according to the Monterey County coroners office. Piplani was treated at the scene by bystanders and rescue crews, then taken by ambulance to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, where he died. Piplani had not been diving in about three years and had no known medical conditions, associates said. An autopsy is pending
My sister and her family were kayaking in the bay and saw folks performing CPR on this diver. Lots of people were still in the water diving.
Does anyone know what happened here? Was an uncontrolled ascent involved at some stage of the incident? (I ask this because a couple of descriptions said the injured diver "popped up" to the surface)