On March 11, 2004, a 43-year-old male career fire fighter drowned while training for fire department dive rescue operations. The victim was diving with another dive rescue team member in a large, partially ice-covered lake in New Hampshire when, after his partner lost visual track of him, the victim failed to surface. The dive partner notified authorities through a pedestrian and a commercial dock attendant while he continued searching from the land docks and parking area. Multiple governmental agencies and private commercial divers conducted an organized search for the missing diver, but the victims body was not found or recovered until the next day. He was pronounced dead on-scene. This is a NIOSH report of the incident.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: A Career Fire Fighter Drowns While Conducting Training Dive in New Hampshire
2005
10 pages
Report
No indication
English
Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice , Emergency Services & Planning , Police, Fire, & Emergency Services , Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Life Support Systems , Fire fighters , Fatalities , Drowning , Accident investigations , Lakes , Ice , Training , Scuba diving , New Hampshire , Cause of death , Recommendations