40y · Male·drowning whilst engaged in scuba diving
…on, a 40-year-old male with obesity, hypertension, and undiagnosed coronary artery stenosis, drowned while scuba diving at Picnic Beach, Tasmania. He demonstrated signs of physical overexertion during the walk to the be…
34y · Male·drowning
A 34-year-old man died by drowning while scuba diving alone after consuming approximately half a bottle of vodka. He dived without a buddy, wore no wetsu…
26y · Female·Drowning
A 26-year-old American woman died by drowning while scuba diving on the Yongala shipwreck during her honeymoon. The coroner accepted drowning as the cause of death …
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-depressant medicati…
57y · Male·severe right limb injury (right arm severed) from shark attack causing fatal blo…
Gary Johnson, an experienced recreational scuba diver and President of the Esperance Dive Club, died on 5 January 2020 following a fatal shark attack whil…
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 defi…
52y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and multi-organ failure due to coronary artery …
…om hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy and multi-organ failure following cardiac arrest during a recreational scuba dive. Autopsy revealed severe coronary artery atherosclerosis and borderline cardiomegaly, predisposing hi…
47y · Male·Unascertained natural causes, probably sudden cardiac arrhythmia
Dennis Anderson, a 47-year-old novice scuba diver with only 19 dives, died during a solo dive at Royal Beach Mornington on 3 December 2011. The corone…
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 demo…
24y · Female·Immersion (drowning due to hypoxic brain injury)
…-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 dive guide Kazumasa Miyah…
23y · Female·Pulmonary barotrauma due to or as a consequence of a scuba diving accident
Maren Lyndsey Dell, 23, died during a resort dive at Agincourt Reef from pulmonary barotrauma caused by rapid ascent from 9 metres. She panicked when unable to clear water from her mask and ascended quickly without expel…
38y · Male·drowning
Marc Edward Hay, 38, drowned while free diving without scuba equipment in Tasmanian waters. He was an inexperienced diver attempting to harvest crayfish/…
14y · Male·complications of cerebral arterial gas embolism due to SCUBA incident
…ate oxygen therapy in hospital (less than 40% inspired oxygen); treating physicians had no experience with diving illness and did not diagnose decompression illness for 6 hours; and critically, a decompression chamber wa…
58y · Male·salt water drowning following air embolism due to ascent barotrauma
A 58-year-old male experienced cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE) during recreational scuba diving ascent, resulting in drowning. Pleural adhesions from prior motor vehicle accident restricted lung …
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 undergone proper divi…
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…
55y · Male·Ascent barotrauma resulting in cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE) and drownin…
…th 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 ignored this counsel. H…
23y · Male·injuries sustained in a shark attack
…stant died from injuries sustained in a Great White shark attack while conducting a University of Adelaide diving expedition in the Gulf of St Vincent. The inquest examined whether risk assessment for shark attack was ad…
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 dist…
40y · Female·Drowning
Leonie Hanson, an experienced diving instructor, drowned at Mornington Pier while attempting to rescue a student, Logan Saminathan, who surface…
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