Tourist dies while diving on Ambergris Caye

[ibj40]

Tourist dies while diving on Ambergris Caye

 

[rongoodman]

Odd that he was low on air that soon.

 

[Altamira]

I have seen young, apparently physically fit divers blow through an AL80 in less than 25 minutes.

 

[caruso]

What also struck me as odd is that he was last seen at his safety stop where he signaled OK to the DM who apparently accompanied him there before descending to rejoin his group and finish the dive.

What could have possibly happened at that point to result in him going from being ok at 15' to lifeless on the bottom?

 

[flyboy08]

Bummer....diving one moment, gone the next! Sad...

 

[dlofting]

What also struck me as odd is that he was last seen at his safety stop where he signaled OK to the DM who apparently accompanied him there before descending to rejoin his group and finish the dive.

What could have possibly happened at that point to result in him going from being ok at 15' to lifeless on the bottom?

Possibly a medical event.

 

[Altamira]

Bummer....diving one moment, gone the next! Sad...

When it is my time to go, that actually sounds good to me!

 

[wgw04024]

Buddy system.....buddy system....

 

[ibj40]

What also struck me as odd is that he was last seen at his safety stop where he signaled OK to the DM who apparently accompanied him there before descending to rejoin his group and finish the dive.

What could have possibly happened at that point to result in him going from being ok at 15' to lifeless on the bottom?

But how automatic has the OK hand signal become?

It bothers me that divers get left at an SS, and then appear next as a floating body.

 

[Ministryofgiraffes]

it's terrible. B&D is a pretty pedestrian divesite so i would suspect that the poor guy may have had a medical event as opposed to any 'over fatigue' etc.

very sad.