22 results for “drowning”
22y · Male·drowning secondary to incapacitation from air embolism
A 22-year-old skilled and experienced pearl shell drift diver with over 600 logged dives died from drowning secondary to air embolism and cerebral arterial gas embolism while diving for Paspaley Pearling Company o…
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 fis…
42y · Female·Drowning due to combined drug (tramadol, venlafaxine, diazepam, quetiapine and c…
A 42-year-old woman with bipolar disorder, chronic pain, and emphysema died by drowning while scuba diving in shallow water after a 3-year hiatus from diving. She was taking multiple CNS-depres…
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…
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…
40y · Male·drowning whilst engaged in scuba diving
…ng the walk to the beach and early in the dive, including heavy breathing and dyspnoea. The coroner found drowning was the primary cause, likely precipitated by cardiac arrhythmia given his poor fitness level, obesity, a…
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 laryn…
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…
52y · Male·salt water drowning
A 52-year-old experienced recreational diver died from salt water drowning whilst diving near Marion Bay, South Australia. Multiple medical and equipment factors contributed: sever…
42y · Female·saltwater drowning
Deborah Campbell, aged 42, died from saltwater drowning while scuba diving at Nora Creina, South Australia. She was obese, physically unfit, and had not undergon…
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 …
68y · Male·drowning against a background of cardiomegaly and severe coronary artery calcifi…
Eric Finlayson, a 68-year-old UK tourist, died by drowning on 9 October 2012 while snorkelling at Michaelmas Cay on the Great Barrier Reef. He had undiagnosed cardi…
49y · Male·Global cerebral hypoxia due to cardiac arrest and drowning, with bilateral bronc…
…ting in sudden cold-water exposure. This triggered a diving reflex causing physiological stress, hypoxia, drowning, and cardiac arrest. Expert evidence strongly supported accidental mask dislodgement as the primary mecha…
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…
40y · Female·Drowning
Leonie Hanson, an experienced diving instructor, drowned at Mornington Pier while attempting to rescue a student, Logan Saminathan, who surfaced unconscious during an open water training dive. The student likely panicked…
58y · Male·salt water drowning following air embolism due to ascent barotrauma
…e experienced cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE) during recreational scuba diving ascent, resulting in drowning. Pleural adhesions from prior motor vehicle accident restricted lung expansion during ascent, causing lun…
44y · Male·Carbon monoxide toxicity causing loss of consciousness and fatal drowning
…n monoxide (2,366 ppm compared to safe limit of 5 ppm), which caused loss of consciousness underwater and drowning. The air was filled at an amateur dive club's compressor that was poorly maintained by well-intentioned b…
44y · Female·salt water drowning due to ascent barotrauma (cerebral arterial gas embolism)
Jennifer Lee Barrington, age 44, died from salt water drowning due to ascent barotrauma (cerebral arterial gas embolism/CAGE) during a recreational scuba dive. She had …
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…
55y · Male·Ascent barotrauma resulting in cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE) and drownin…
A 55-year-old man with undiagnosed viral myocarditis and cardiomegaly died from cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE) during a scuba dive at 37 metres depth. Despite being advised by his cardiologist not to dive, he igno…
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