Dina Dee customer airlifted to hospital after scuba diving accident
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by LUTHER MONROE - CDNN Safety News Editor

NEW JERSEY (28 May 2008) — A diver was airlifted to hospital after a scuba diving accident off Barnegat Light.

Authorities declined to identify the 31-year-old woman who was diving off the Dina Dee dive boat.

According to witnesses, the woman surfaced from a 23-meter (75-foot) dive with symptoms of decompression sickness (the bends).

The captain of the Dina Dee called for help and the Coast Guard scrambled a helicopter that took the injured diver to University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia for medical treatment in a hyperbaric chamber.

Hospital officials have not commented on the woman's condition.

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Anybody know anything more about this?

Wow.. Fairly deep but not an overly deep dive either. We need more info on this it's unfortunate but we can definitely learn something from it.. I hope she's well and I also hope she had DAN..