Emergency services were called to the Haven at Terrigal this afternoon to assist a diver who was suffering from ‘the bends’.
The 53-year-old man was flown to Prince of Wales Hospital after his condition deteriorated on the way to hospital.
The man was diving near the ex-HMAS Adelaide site when he took ill.
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There have been an excessive number of bends cases related to the Adelaide in the past few months being noted in the news and yet the spokesperson for the Central Coast Artificial Reef Program (CCARP) denies that this is a problem. If the medical profession are trying to alert the public to the fact that the HMAS Adelaide is a potentially dangerous dive to unexperienced divers, shouldn’t the caretakers of the site be more responsible in limiting dives to experienced divers – before a tragedy happens?
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People go diving in the ocean, and inexperienced divers commonly get “the bends”. Should we perhaps have better training in the Scuba industry?