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Scuba diving fatalities are deaths occurring while scuba diving or as a consequence of scuba diving. The risks of dying during recreational , scientific or commercial diving are small, and on scuba , deaths are usually associated with poor gas management , poor buoyancy control , equipment misuse, entrapment, rough water conditions and pre ...
For deaths caused by diving in the sense of jumping into water, see Category:Diving deaths. Pages in category "Underwater diving deaths" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
Scuba Diving Deaths: 150 a year in the U.S. Causes of Death: Equipment failure, improper ascent/descent, cardiac arrest ... there are about 150 deaths each year in the U.S. from scuba diving ...
On 1 November 2020, PADI Open Water Diver Linnea Rose Mills [1] drowned during a training dive in Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana, while using an unfamiliar and defective equipment configuration, with excessive weights, no functional dry suit inflation mechanism, and a buoyancy compensator too small to support the weights, which were not configured to be ditched in an emergency.
David Pleace, 57, died while scuba diving to a shipwreck in Scotland after part of his equipment disconnected.
The 1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident was a scuba diving incident on 28 May 1973 at a flooded sinkhole known as "The Shaft" near Mount Gambier in South Australia.The incident claimed the lives of four recreational scuba divers: siblings Stephen and Christine M. Millott, Gordon G. Roberts, and John H. Bockerman. [1]
This category is for deaths caused by diving in the sense of jumping into water. For underwater diving (e.g. scuba diving ) deaths, see Category:Underwater diving deaths . Pages in category "Diving deaths"
The air may then enter the arterial circulation producing arterial gas embolism (AGE), with effects similar to severe decompression sickness. [7] Although AGE may occur as a result of other causes, it is most often secondary to PBT. AGE is the second most common cause of death while diving (drowning being the most common stated cause of death ...