DIVING NEWS
An Australian rebreather diver has died on what was reported to be a 90m solo dive off the island of Bonaire.
Dr Fiona Sharp, 55, an anaesthetist and hyperbaric-medicine specialist, was on her last dive of a week-long group trip to the southern Caribbean island on 17 October, according to 9News.
She was said to have been found unresponsive at a depth of 24m, with the closed-circuit rebreather mouthpiece out of her mouth, and could not be revived.
Dr Sharp worked at a hyperbaric medicine unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, and was described as “an expert in underwater emergencies” for local dive-schools.
Divers Alert Network was working with her family to arrange the return of her body to Australia.
