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58y · Male·drowning
A 58-year-old man died by drowning while hookah diving off the Tasmanian coast. He was using second-hand equipment purchased online that had multiple safety deficiencies: inadequate filtration allowing contaminants and r…
57y · Male·cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE)
A 57-year-old experienced commercial diver died from cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE) while recreational hookah diving near St Helens Island, Tasmania on 24 December 2021. His diving equipment had multiple critical …
41y · Female·salt water drowning
Ms Ardebby Chua, a 41-year-old woman with no snorkelling experience, died from salt water drowning during a guided snorkelling tour near Blyth Island, South Australia. She aspirated water triggering laryngospasm and beca…
49y · Male·Global cerebral hypoxia due to cardiac arrest and drowning, with bilateral bronc…
Mark Murphy, an experienced diver with 657 logged dives, died during an occupational diving course when his full face mask became accidentally dislodged underwater, resulting in sudden cold-water exposure. This triggered…
39y · Male·Drowning
Logan Saminathan, a 39-year-old beginner scuba diver, drowned at Mornington Pier during an open water training dive. The precise underwater events remain unclear, but he surfaced unconscious without his mask. Expert anal…
49y · Male·drowning combined with head trauma
Eric Fillisch, an experienced 49-year-old rebreather diver, died from drowning following head trauma sustained in an underwater cave at Visscher Island, Tasmania. While exploring a fissure cave after his dive partner sur…
21y · Female·drowning
Bethany Farrell, a 21-year-old UK tourist on her first scuba dive, became separated from her instructor in poor visibility (3m) at Blue Pearl Bay. She surfaced in distress for 40+ seconds but was not seen by the designat…
42y · Female·Drowning
Karen Lee, a 42-year-old recreational scuba diver with 55 dives experience, drowned during a dive to the SS Coogee wreck in Port Phillip Bay. She demonstrated poor buoyancy control during her first dive and had difficult…
23y · Female·drowning due to or as a consequence of scuba diving
Ms Xia Dai, a 23-year-old first-time scuba diver with no ocean swimming experience, died by drowning during a resort dive on the Gold Coast. Critical clinical/safety lessons: inadequate pre-dive instruction on emergency …
47y · Male·Myocardial ischaemia as a result of undiagnosed coronary artery disease; cerebra…
Thomas Creegan, a 47-year-old UK tourist, died during a second introductory resort dive at the Great Barrier Reef after becoming separated from his instructor and ascending rapidly to the surface. He lost consciousness s…
24y · Female·Immersion (drowning due to hypoxic brain injury)
Syoko Tsubaki, a 24-year-old Japanese tourist and inexperienced recreational diver, died from drowning on 31 December 1998 after a scuba diving incident at Rottnest Island on 27 December. During an afternoon dive, the di…
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