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Two incidents leave one dead and several bent
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A diver died yesterday at a British inland site after getting into difficulties during a training dive.
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The diver is reported to have been among a group of qualified divers from a Derbyshire diving school, practising deep diving skills at Stoney Cove, in Leicestershire.
According to police, the group consisted of two instructors, a rescue diver and two other divers.
Stoney's own National Diving Centre staff were not involved as either instructors or supervisors.
According to a statement by Stoney Cove, a diver surfaced to raise the alarm 'very soon after the start of the dive'. The Stoney Cove Rescue Team was deployed and arrived to find that other divers had surfaced with the casualty.
The diver who had got into distress was taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary, but did not survive.
A police source added that 'two or three' of the other divers in the group were airlifted for recompression treatment in Liverpool. Stoney Cove explained that, in their efforts to bring the casualty to the surface, 'four divers in the group ascended faster than normal'.
It is not yet clear whether the recompression treatments were of a precautionary nature or in response to clear symptoms of decompression illness.
On Saturday, three divers were hospitalised after making a rapid ascent off Newhaven, on the South Coast.
According to the Coastguard, the three were 'on the same dive profile' and made a rapid ascent from 25m. One was reported to have surfaced coughing blood, suggesting a burst-lung injury.
The Coastguard's Lee-on-Solent rescue helicopter was scrambled and airlifted the three divers to Horsea, from where they were transferred by ambulance to Portsmouth's Queen Alexandria Hospital. |
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