Еще немного инфы на скубаборде.
According to the combined information in a published news report and a video interview (
http://midi-pyrenees.france3.fr/2013/01 ... 89411.html) of a police spokesperson,
the diver was washed over a cascade and was pulled from the water still alive late in the morning on January 28th. He received CPR for an hour and a half but died in the late afternoon.
He was diving in a group of four, three visiting divers and a French guide.
The police officer interviewed stated that the water was very high and the flow was especially strong that day. We all know how news reporters can get it wrong, but that's some of what was reported, at least.
A series of posts on a French cave diving forum (
http://pscausette.plongeesout.com/viewt ... f=2&t=3235) says that the victim became entangled in a tree branch,
during which time his buddies were trying to free him and were giving him air. But when rescuers finally freed him, he fell back into the water and over the spillway, sunk to the bottom and had to be pulled out a second time.
One person in that thread pointed out that it had rained a lot over the weekend and that the water was high and running fast.
Questions are being asked about whether conditions were too severe for undertaking the dive, and also there some mention in yet other sources that this wasn't really a cave diving accident,
but an accident that could have happened even to a swimmer since the water was about 2 to 3 meters higher than normal in the basin.
Мы там перила натягивали, чтобы чуть чего можно было за них ухватится.
