{"id":1755,"date":"2009-11-04T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T15:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2009-11-04T12:23:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T19:23:29","slug":"woman-dies-after-deep-sea-certification-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1755","title":{"rendered":"Woman Dies After Deep-Sea Certification Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThank you, Crazy Ivan for bringing this to my attention.<\/p>\n

This seems, or at least initially appears to be, a shear case of panic, followed by a mad dash to the surface.<\/p>\n

There also seems to be some speculation on the thread at Scubaboard.com,<\/a> that the student’s ascent was initially slowed by the instructor, but the student fought him off.<\/p>\n

As ScubaBoard user Merxlin speculates, “Based on the symptoms (frothing, etc.), it was probably a barotrauma <\/a>caused by rapid ascent due to panic. From my conversation with them, the rapid ascent occurred in the final 15 to 20 ft.”<\/p>\n

Not becoming an instructor is getting to be a better and better idea, at least for me.<\/p>\n

My condolences to the family.<\/p>\n

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November 1, 2009 – AVALON, Calif.<\/strong> A Redlands woman died after suddenly surfacing during her deep-sea certification test on Catalina Island Sunday, deputies said.<\/p>\n

Mona Towle, 56, died while being rushed from Avalon to Two Harbors, where she was to be treated for apparent decompression sickness, L.A. sheriff’s deputy Robert Domin said.<\/p>\n

Emergency personnel worked to revive Towle after she suddenly surfaced from more than 65 feet below the water at a marine sanctuary just north of Avalon’s casino, another deputy said.<\/p>\n

Towle was reportedly experiencing problems with her scuba equipment while ascending to the water’s surface. Divers must ascend at a rate slow enough to avoid “the bends,” a painful physical condition caused by an excessive concentration of nitrogen in the bloodstream.<\/p>\n

The diver was being transported by boat for treatment at a hyperbaric chamber when her heart stopped, deputies said.<\/p>\n

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Thank you, Crazy Ivan for bringing this to my attention. This seems, or at least initially appears to be, a shear case of panic, followed by a mad dash to the surface. There also seems to be some speculation on the thread at Scubaboard.com, that the student’s ascent was initially slowed by the instructor, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,24,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}