Kent | Kent Coroner Archives Open Outcome In To Cirkewwa Diving Death

NATIONAL Friday, April 22, 2011

Family of British diver who died on legal holiday in Malta in 2006 might never know the expect environment heading up to his death.

A justice inquisition hold in Kent, UK in to the demise of a British diver in Malta in October 2006 was told this week there was no decisive explanation the air armoured column were giving precise readings or that valves were working correctly.

IT dilettante John Foulkes, 56, of Kent was in Malta on legal holiday with his family when he died assumingly of heart failure. He was diving with a organisation off Cirkewwa when he unexpectedly surfaced, assumingly in distress. He was already knocked outs when he was taken on house the boat, and after that died at St Luke’s hospital.

According to Maltese authorities, his apparatus appeared to be in great working order. The Maltese exploration resolved he might have suffered heart disaster and died from innate causes.

Thisiskent.com reports that information from Foulkes’s dive computer, which logged all his underwater activities, was analysed by an expert, who found he had done no poignant mistakes in his skirmish and climb techniques.

Pathologist Dr David Rouse, who carried out a autopsy hearing on Foulkes’s body in Britain, mentioned he was not able to to get hold of all tests due to the participation of embalming fluid. But he said: "There’s no pathological anticipating to account for his death, so to my mind, a contingency ponder the diving equipment."

Dr Rouse gave the result in of demise as unascertained.

Coroner Roger Sykes, who available an open verdict, mentioned as the principal scrutiny was hold in Malta he was not able to to scrutinize the indication and subject witnesses to the border he would have wanted.

He said: "I am not going to get the answers for you. we do not regard you will ever know what happened, and we am not able to! to expa nd the gaps. You have nothing more than you had 4 years ago, but we have done what we can."

Foulkes had been in really great illness and was gifted and associating about his hobby.

His spouse Judith, a amicable worker, told the hearing: "He would not have vanished diving if he felt unwell."

An gifted diver, he had finished at least 3 underwater descents during the outing with no problems, before he assimilated a organisation for an exploration of a mutilate 35 metres next the surface.

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