Unknown Tourist dies running out air diving in Riviera Maya waters

[ibj40]

Tourist dies running out of air diving in Riviera Maya waters - Riviera Maya News

Riviera Maya, Q.R. -- A man reported diving in Riviera Maya died by drowning Sunday afternoon during a group expedition.

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[tursiops]

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[boulderjohn]

As so often happens, this brief report is too confusing for anyone to draw any reliable conclusions. History suggests it may be all we ever know.

The story says he ran out of air (as usual, it says "oxygen"), but it also says he was diving with a group, and it took a search to find the body. If he was with a group, you would expect someone to share air, and you would expect them to have a good idea of the location of the body.

In a surprisingly large percentage of fatalities, the diver is somehow separated from a buddy or team and is later found dead, with the cause of death unclear. In such cases, the air may run out because the regulator free flowed after leaving the diver's mouth. Or he might have run out of air. From this article, all we know is that a search found a deceased diver with a presumably empty tank.

 

[scubadada]

posted four times in same forum

Thanks, duplicates deleted

 

[ibj40]

posted four times in same forum

Thanks, duplicates deleted

I was getting an error message each time I tried to post it. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

 

[DandyDon]

Any licensed diver should be capable of a safe CESA from 60 feet. Sorry her wasn't.

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

From the skinny report: "The captain of boat Nicolás alerted authorities around 1:30 p.m. of a missing group diver. According to reports, authorities were not permitted access to the theme park to respond to the accident."

How do that play? Granted, laws and law enforcement in Quintana Roo may be different, but if I show up at the scene of an incident and have exigent circumstances to address a life-or-death incident, I'm going in. Don't care what the owner says.

 

[boulderjohn]

Any licensed diver should be capable of a safe CESA from 60 feet. Sorry her wasn't.

As I tried to indicate in my previous post, we do not know that he wasn't able to do that. All we really know is that there was a missing diver, and his body was found after a search. I assume his tank was empty, thus the conclusion that he ran out of air, but a tank can run out of air via free flow, too.

The part that makes no sense is the separation. He was part of a group, but if he had been with the group and they had seen that he was out of air, it is hard to believe their reaction would be to surface and tell the captain that he had run out of air and drowned.

 

[boulderjohn]

Any licensed diver should be capable of a safe CESA from 60 feet. Sorry her wasn't.

Sorry for the repeat. The same server error message that caused multiple thread got me. I tried twice. Both times it said it could not post. Both times it did actually post. I would ask the mods to remove this, but I tried to report the multiple threads and got those same server error messages.

 

[tursiops]

I was getting an error message each time I tried to post it. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

LOL. And I was getting an error msg when I posted about the dupes, and when I reported the dupe post. The Chairman has provided an explanation here:

Question - Why there are duplicate threads by many posters today?

Why are there duplicate threads by same posters today? There seems to be many of them today for several posts.

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