Soccer coach from California dies diving

[Web Monkey]

From: Cayman Islands News

(CNS): Martin Linley, a 51-year-old soccer coach at Analy High in California, USA, has been named as the diver who died Monday 7 December, following an organised diving trip on the North Wall. Mr Linley was on vacation with his wife, Elizabeth, but during a dive he become unwell and then lost consciousness. The RCIPS Marine Unit attended the location and staff from both the Marine Unit and Resort Sports undertook CPR. The victim was conveyed by the RCIPS Marine Unit to the nearby Yacht Club and he was then transported by ambulance to George Town Hospital where he was found to be dead on arrival.

Police said the victim was a certified dive master who had been diving for many years, and that investigations into the death were ongoing.

 

[DandyDon]

Excerpting from: Memorial Saturday for soccer coach who died while diving | PressDemocrat.com | The Press Democrat | Santa Rosa, CA

...Beth Linley said Wednesday, nine days after losing her husband to a heart attack.

Martin Linley, 51, a veteran scuba diver known widely as a soccer coach throughout Sonoma County, died Dec. 7 while he and his wife were diving off the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.

It was the Cazadero couple's fourth wedding anniversary.

Martin Linley reboarded the dive boat ahead of his wife, who found crew members performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him when she came aboard, friend Paul Richardson said.

A deck hand told Beth Linley that her husband had complained of dizziness and numbness before he collapsed, Richardson said.

His death, she said, came quickly “after a beautiful dive” that was videotaped and shows him looking “relaxed and happy.”

 

[mohave_steve]

"His death, she said, came quickly “after a beautiful dive” that was videotaped and shows him looking “relaxed and happy.”"


Condolences to family and friends for thier loss.

I do hope that when my time comes that my last moments are as well spent.

 

[coldohiodiver]

Rest In Peace

 

[Drew Sailbum]

Coroner's inquest results were published 13 April 2012.

Caymanian Compass article

The ruling was natural causes, namely "expansile lung injury as a consequence to barotrauma while scuba diving, due to probable acute 
cardiac event."

Patient had an enlarged heart and took "seven different medications for conditions that included diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol."

In Cayman, a coroner's inquest typically occurs some 2 to 3 years after such a death. The coroner's findings and any other evidence are submitted to a jury for their consideration to determine the cause of death. The jury may classify a death as natural causes, death by misadventure, or possibly some sort of foul play. Generally, as in this case, the jury accepts the medical findings of the coroner.