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Diver dies in Gijon, Spain - 16th July 2013

    Yet another diver has died while working, this time in Gijon, Spain. Fernando Robles Aller, aged 42, born in Leon, married with two children.

Yet another diver has died while working, this time in Gijon, Spain.

Fernando Robles Aller, aged 42, born in Leon, married with two children.

S/S air, cleaning rubbish/silt from outside dry dock gates with a pump so they could open them to launch a couple of new boats, probably a differential pressure incident, diving solo with one man topside looking after the compressor (Spanish regs require a minimum 5 man team.........)

Bubbles stopped, but it took them the best part of an hour to get him to the surface, no real details.

Unnecessary death, working on the cheap, breaking the law in Spain, so unless he has a rich family or the unions back him, they might sacrifice the diving contractor but it will probably be brushed under the carpet as far as the client and people who were in charge are concerned.

Links to articles in Spanish newspapers:

http://www.lne.es/gijon/2013/07/17/muere-buzo-limpiaba-zona-botadura/1442925.html

http://www.elcomercio.es/20130716/asturias/gijon/cuerpo-sacan-201307161233.html


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To be clear, the article says that when his topside tender noticed a lack of bubbles and comms response he jumped in the water, in addition, the guy who contacted him was also there as an Engineer supervisor and two laborers helped in the rescue. Witnesses say that during CPR he bled from mouth and ears. An ambulance was called and attempted to resuscitate him. After an hour of attention by the EMTs, he was declared dead. Both articles mention the Emergency service (Ambulance) and paramedics worked on him for an hour.

Regardless, this is unacceptable, and sickening. That a company agreed to contract two guys to do a pump/cleaning job (one article mentions they had been using a pump to clear debris from the dyke's gates to allow them to open in preparation for the shipyard completing two tuna fishing boats).

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Unnecessary and unacceptable; the contracting company needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

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Fuen un terrible accidente , la irresponsabilidad de la empresa tiene la ley de España todos los fundamentos para hacerles pagar tremendo error. Tengo entendido por las versiones de los colegas buzos españoles, que estaban trabajando infrigiendo todas las reglamentaciones.- 

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El Sindicato Estatal de Buceo mostró ayer su malestar por la falta de control a las empresas que contratan a buceadores en la aplicación de las medidas de seguridad exigibles. Como ejemplo recordó el precedente que tuvo lugar el 9 de julio de 2011, cuando el buzo gozoniego Daniel Heres Álvarez falleció mientras trabajaba en la campaña de la recogida del ocle a dos millas del nordeste de El Musel. El secretario general del sindicato, Luis Torcida, señaló ayer que la empresa que había contratado a Heres no fue sancionada y que los buzos que están en la campaña del ocle actual están trabajando con las mismas condiciones de inseguridad que acabaron en un siniestro mortal hace dos años.


A raíz de aquel accidente, los pesqueros que participan en la campaña del ocle tienen que dotar a sus buceadores de una botella de oxígeno de reserva, por si hay algún contratiempo con el sistema de respiración principal. Esas botellas se muestran a la Capitanía Marítima para pasar la oportuna inspección y obtener la autorización de trabajo, pero luego no se están utilizando en la práctica y los buzos están bajando al fondo a recoger ocle sin ellas, denuncia el representante sindical.


Daniel Heres contaba 35 años cuando falleció. Mientras recogía ocle recibía aire desde la superficie a través de una manguera enganchada a un regulador. El buzo no tenía comunicación con la superficie más que a través de los tirones que le daban desde arriba para indicarle que saliese.

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Es la misma hisoria que se repite una y otra vez en este pais, donde la dejadez politica y profesional nos situan donde estamos, a la cola de los paises desarrollados, pero en definitiva donde nos merecemos estar......una verguenza.

 

It's the same story repeated over and over again in this country, where political and professional negligence put us where we are, at the bottom of the developed countries, but definitively where we deserve to be ......an embarrassment.

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