Windsurfer kills Russian woman - Canary Islands

[DandyDon]

Diver killed in windsurfer collision on Gran Canaria - The Local

A Russian woman has died after being hit in the neck by the windsurfing board of a holidaymaker on the popular tourist island.

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The accident happened at around 2.45pm on Monday afternoon in Santa Lucía de Tirajana, on the south east coast of the Spanish holiday island of Gran Canaria.
The unnamed woman, 31, who had been living in Spain "for a number of years", was scuba diving for shellfish in an area known as Cueva Laya in Forma bay, when the accident occurred.
She was not using a buoy to signal her position, Nieves Garcia, the town’s councillor in charge of security, confirmed to Spanish news agency Efe.
Emergency services were alerted that a woman was bleeding after being hit by a windsurfer and could only confirm her death, due to the severity of the cut she had received to the neck.
The windsurfer, reported to be a 41-year-old man on holiday in the Canary Islands, was admitted to El Doctoral medical centre suffering an anxiety attack following the accident.
Conflicting media reports from the island identified him as being of either Swiss or Swedish nationality but neither of the nations' embassies in Madrid could confirm the reports.
Officers from Spain's Civil Guard are now investigating the facts surrounding the case.
Both windsurfing and scuba diving are permitted in the bay, which is a popular spot for watersport enthusiasts on the south coast of the island.

 

[Dr. Lecter]

We have a near-constant swarm of these silent, fast, sharp-finned things zipping all across the waters on the Windward side of Oahu, plus the kite boarders, from Kailua down into Lanikai. Really takes the fun out of any kind of open-water swimming in the area, and there's no ing way I'd dive near where they roam.

 

[DandyDon]

I always send up a SMB from bellow and listen for motors/props, but sail powered vessels worry me. I can't hear them, they can't control themselves well, and I wonder if they even know what a SMB means? I surfaced to see a sailboat sailing between markers on Molasses Reef, Key Largo once. I was very rude in my shouting, and he looked puzzled.

 

[Dr. Lecter]

There's no reason they should know what an SMB is--short of it having Alpha and US diver below flags on it, as far as the rules of the road are concerned it's just an orange bobby thing.

Not to mention the fact that boarders, especially kite boarders, aren't traditionally trained in any form of marine rules/conventions/laws because they don't think of themselves as "vessels." As far as I can tell the kite board is merely an answer to the question of 'how can we make something more annoying and potentially deadly to other people than the good ole jet ski?'

 

[PeterNBiddle]

As far as I can tell the kite board is merely an answer to the question of 'how can we make something more annoying and potentially deadly to other people than the good ole jet ski?'

But if you close your eyes you can't hear a kite boarder.


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[Dr. Lecter]

But if you close your eyes you can't hear a kite boarder.

You can't hear a kite boarder period, which is nice out of the water but a major ing problem in it.

 

[PeterNBiddle]

I was keying on your "annoying" point. I can certainly appreciate the deadly aspect.


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