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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — A 36-year-old diver was killed after lightning struck his oxygen tank, authorities said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was diving with three others off a boat near Deerfield Beach on Sunday. When he surfaced, "lighting struck his tank," said Deerfield Beach fire Chief Gary Fernaays. "He was approximately 30 feet from the boat at the time." The man was rushed to the beach where a rescue crew was waiting. He was given CPR and taken to North Broward Medical Center in Pompano Beach, where he was pronounced dead, Fernaays said. I guess his number was up. And it's an AIR tank.
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i read that in the miami herald this morning....that is a diving accident i have NEVER heard of, or even thought of the possibility. ........edited to add florida has more deaths by lightning than any other state. usually it's golfers or even people walking the beach. Last edited on 10:08 pm by Lady Cop   |
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Wow. One of my good friends in Singapore is a diving instructor. Yikes. I'll have to pass this on. I never would have guessed this is possible.
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3 guys on the boat tried hard to save him. there will be an autopsy to determine whether he died of electrocution or drowning.
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this may interest you G... New Keys campaign aims to prevent diving deaths Since the start of last lobster mini-season, 16 people have died in diving-related accidents in the Keys -- compared to nine in the year before  CAMMY CLARK/MIAMI HERALD STAFF A law enforcement officer trains for body-recovery duty. STOCK ISLAND -- At an idyllic lagoon where turtles, hogfish and snapper roam in water 40 feet deep, Florida Keys Community College dive instructor Bob Guhl was teaching law enforcement divers last week the grisly task of recovering bodies. The Monroe County Sheriff Office's diving team conducted the mission for real a year ago, when four people died in three Keys' diving accidents during the popular spiny lobster mini-season, which returns on Wednesday. ''At that time, I was thinking we have a lot of talent on the sheriff's dive team, and we can do more than recover bodies,'' Guhl said. ``What we can do is educate and use the team in a proactive, positive manner to prevent diving accidents.'' So this year, besides preparing for the worst, several public service agencies, the Lower Keys Medical Center and local divers came up with a new safety program, Dive ALIVE. The centerpiece is the Lobster Diving Rodeo & Expo, a free event today to refresh diving skills and teach lobster ''tickling'' techniques. ''Whether you are going down 20 feet to grab [lobsters] or 200 feet for technical diving, you've got to make sure everything is right,'' Guhl said. Since the start of last mini-season, 16 people have died in diving-related accidents in the Keys -- compared to nine the year before. Most of them, Guhl said, were caused by diver error. ''We're having a bad year,'' said Bob Smith, who has been diving for 55 years and is director of the Florida Keys Community College diving program. ``Sadly, the accidents have continued to occur. We've just had another one the past weekend.'' Lori Gallagher, 36, of Pennsylvania, was diving July 15 with her two kids and a friend near Molasses Reef, off Key Largo. She entered the water with too much weight, causing her to sink. According to police reports, Gallagher panicked while a friend tried to help. She drowned. About 20,000 visitors are expected in the Keys for this week's two-day lobster mini-season before the commercial season opens in August. Today's safety event is an opportunity for them to refresh their skills and review safety information such as mask cleaning, controlled emergency swimming ascents, and weight dropping. It will also offer briefings on safe boating, using a dive flag and marine sanctuary rules. Participants can also tour the college's hyperbaric chamber. Guhl, a reserve deputy on the sheriff's dive team, said 90 percent of diving accidents are preventable. ''In the majority of deaths, people still have weight systems in place,'' he said. ``If the weight is dropped, the diver is going to go to the surface. He or she may still be in distress, but the surface is a lot more survivable.'' Guhl came up with the Dive ALIVE acronym while jogging: A for air; L for lead weights (in an emergency, use your head, lose the lead); I for inspection of gear; V for verification of dive plan and skills; E for escape (stop, think, breathe and act -- don't panic). Cece Roycraft and Bob Holston, co-owners of Dive Key West, said they support promoting safety, but would prefer a more positive name for the campaign. Dive ALIVE, they say, has a negative connotation that may scare people away from trying the sport. They argue that the number of fatalities is a tiny percentage of all the diving trips in the Keys. No exact figures are available, but a 2001 study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded about 1.9 million dive trips are taken annually in the Keys, home to America's biggest coral reef. Of the 16 who died in the past year, two were Keys residents, the rest visitors. They ranged in age from 23 to 66 and had varied diving experience. Kendra Motter, 40, who was visiting from Ohio, died in January, five days after passing out in the water off Key Largo on her first dive. She had gone down 15 feet. Three experienced divers from New Jersey with technical expertise drowned in March after descending to 135 feet inside the USS Spiegel Grove shipwreck. They apparently got lost in the bowels of the sunken Navy ship and ran out of air. Another victim had cannabis and Ephedrine in his system. Another died after spearing a Goliath grouper (which is illegal) and getting tangled in the line. He had no knife and couldn't cut the line. No law regulates the dive industry or even requires diving certification. But Roycraft said the industry has set its own high national standards, enforced by insurance regulations. Those rules require divers to have proper certification. If they have not dived within a year, but have within the past two years, they have to dive with an instructor. If it's been longer than that, a refresher session is required. Ten of the past year's accidents occurred on private trips, not commercial ones. Faulty equipment rarely is to blame for diving deaths, Guhl said. The diver usually is at error: the inexperienced forgetting the basics; the experts becoming complacent; and anyone diving with a serious preexisting medical condition. ''I've had people stand in front of me, with shiny red scars down their chest that had not healed yet from open heart surgery, wanting to go diving,'' Roycraft said. Guhl agreed with Roycraft and Holston that diving is a safe sport -- if participants follow safety protocol and don't dive with rusty skills. ''I may have been very good in math, but if my job depended on passing a ninth-grade algebra class, I would get a tutor,'' Guhl said. ``If you haven't dived in a while, you need refreshing.''
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