Posted by AADIVER on December 10, 2004 at 17:33:42:
In Reply to: Re: Double Cave Diving Fatality in Mexico posted by AADIVER on December 10, 2004 at 17:25:54:
This translation is from the Alta Vista Babelfish Translator site:
TULUM, SOLIDARITY, 9 OF DECEMBER. - Two divers died by decompression to the edge of noon of yesterday Thursday, minutes after to have entered to swim in a natural well that is located in the side of the Tulum-Cobá highway, the tragic facts come to add one long list of deaths of divers under the same conditions. Although the representatives of the Subdivision of Civil defense, made formal appearance in the natural well "Calinda Kin-Ha", to save the life of the divers, or nothing could do since the divers or had happened to better life floating in the entrance of the cavern after to have swum by long short while in the underground rivers. A report of the corresponding authority, indicates that when arriving at the place of the facts they had at sight to two people without life, which responded to the names of Mike Nast, original of Pensilvania and until the hour of his death it counted on 42 years of age, the other occioso responded to the name of Kent original Hirsch of the same place and counted on 46 years age. The corresponding authorities indicate that the tourists passed away by broncoaspiración by immersion and they were provided with accomodations in the hotel Villas of Pink the Akumal Adventures. Previous to the arrival of the authorities, the divers either had been rescued by the guide of name Gary Lorey, nevertheless or were dead, in the place of the facts the ministerial authorities appeared and gave faith of the facts being transferred the bodies without life to well-known Beach undertaker of the Carmen.