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Tödlicher Kreiselunfall im Pool Abgesandt von Armin am 10.05.2005 - 11:08:
This is a sad piece of news as well as incredible. What do you think that could have happened to the guy? Is it possible that the gas in his tank was contaminated to the point of lose of conciousness without ever realizing he was getting poisoned?
May 9, 2005 -- An experienced scuba-diving instructor in top physical shape mysteriously drowned in 4 feet of water in the pool of a Long Island high school, police said yesterday. David Rampersad, 38, of Richmond Hill, Queens, was found dead by two fellow instructors at Chaminade HS in Mineola on Saturday afternoon.
"I just can`t believe this - he was as healthy as a horse," his grieving brother Sean, 23, told The Post.
He said the strapping Rampersad - who stood 6-foot-2 and weighed 170 pounds - ate right, exercised regularly and didn`t smoke or drink.
But something went dreadfully wrong as the well-liked Trinidad native, who worked for the Scuba Network, a Florida-based franchise of diving schools, tested out equipment in the shallow end of the pool at 1:45 p.m.
"He had just been swimming around. Then one of the instructors in the deep end looked up and saw that he wasn`t moving," said the victim`s father, Errol Rampersad, 63. "They went and checked and saw that he wasn`t breathing - then pulled him out and started CPR." Rampersad was rushed to Winthrop University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Relatives said his wife, Michelle, had been on her way to the pool to bring her husband a diving regulator when she got a phone call telling her there was something terribly wrong.
An autopsy will be conducted today to determine whether he had a seizure that caused him to drown accidentally or his equipment malfunctioned, authorities said.
Rampersad - who had two kids, Stephanie, 16, and Aaron, 12, from a previous marriage - loved the water, his family said.
He had taught hundreds of people how to dive over the years in Florida, the Bahamas and Mexico and dreamed of opening his own diving school, they said.
One of his favorite local spots was off Beach 19th Street in Far Rockaway, where he would dive just offshore.
"I remember he would say, `I would rather be in the ocean than around people,` " said his brother Eddie, 40.
"He loved swimming with the dolphins - the sea creatures were his friends. At least, he didn`t die in the hospital suffering or in a car accident. He died doing the one thing he loved.
"From what my sister said when she saw him, he had a smile on his face. Not that many people die that way," Eddie said.
Errol Rampersad noted sadly that he had last seen his son Friday night when "we had dinner together, eating West Indian food - some fish and vegetables.
"He said he was looking forward to Saturday."
Cops say Scuba Network rented the high school`s pool for a few hours a week for its instructors to teach classes.
Antwort von domi am 10.05.2005 - 13:27 Ich konnte nirgends eine Info über das verwendete Equipment finden, wo steht das er einen Kreisel benutzt hat?
Gruss domi
Antwort von Micha Waldbrenner am 11.05.2005 - 22:20 Das stand da nirgends, aber da er kein Apnoe uebte blieb primaer ein Kreisel als Wahrscheinlichkeit uebrig.
Hier die Bestaetigung:
BY RICHARD WEIR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
A high-tech device that allows scuba divers to rebreathe their exhaled air while underwater may have been a factor in the death of a dive instructor in Mineola, police said yesterday.
David Rampersad, 38, was using a "rebreather" when he was found unconscious Saturday afternoon in the shallow end of the Chaminade High School pool, cops said.
"We`re looking into the rebreather to see if it had any malfunctions," said Detective Sgt. Richard Laursen of the Nassau Police Homicide Squad.
Rampersad, who had more than a decade of experience in diving, was a certified instructor for the Scuba Network dive shop in Carle Place.
Three other dive instructors from the shop were teaching a class Saturday at the Chaminade pool, which Scuba Network leases from the Catholic school, when Rampersad showed up about 1:30 p.m.
"He was not scheduled to instruct that day," Laursen said. "But he told one of the other instructors that he was having problems with the rebreather and wanted to test it out."
Rampersad, who was married and lived in Richmond Hill, Queens, entered the shallow end of the pool while the diving class trained in the deep end.
About 15 minutes later, an instructor spotted Rampersad unconscious in about 4 feet of water, his mouthpiece out of his mouth, Laursen said.
He was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:59 p.m.
Laursen said autopsy results are pending. In the meantime, the rebreather will be sent to a private laboratory to be examined for possible failure.
"We are going to test it. It could have been a medical event and [have] had nothing to do with the rebreather," he said.
Unlike the traditional scuba oxygen tank regulator system - in which the diver`s entire breath is exhaled into the water - the rebreather reuses part of each breath.
The machine filters out carbon dioxide and recirculates oxygen left unused in each exhaled breath while adding more, extending dive time and providing a quieter experience by producing few or no bubbles. Its tanks are also much smaller and lighter than conventional oxygen tanks.
If the device malfunctioned, it is possible that Rampersad blacked out, lost his mouthpiece and drowned, Laursen said.
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, Andreas 
am 10.05.2005 - 11:08:
