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IRISH WATER SAFETY CONCERNED ABOUT TRAINING OF DIVERS AFTER LATEST DONEGAL DEATH

written by Stephen Maguire July 14, 2014
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Chief executive of Irish Water Safety John Leech has urged divers to be well-trained and practiced before undertaking dives in Irish seas.

The late Rev Dr Stewart Jones.

The late Rev Dr Stewart Jones.

He said the organisation is very concerned about the deaths of five divers in separate accidents in the past month.

It follows the latest death in Co Donegal at the weekend.

A 57-year old man was the latest person to die in a diving incident off St John’s Point.

Rev Dr Stewart Jones of Donemana Presbyterian Church near Strabane, Co Tyrone, who was a qualified diving instructor died after getting into difficulty near St John’s Point lighthouse.

Mr Leech said while many of those who died were experienced, conditions and decision-making can affect the outcome of any dive negatively.

He said physical fitness was also very important.

“Diving by its nature is not risk free – it’s all a case of managing risk,” Mr Leech said.

“Generally speaking, what we’d say is that planning a dive is so important, the whole stress-management, training is vital.

“The more training you do the less chance you have of dying, because the more time you put in in the water the more diving fit you are,” Mr Leech added.

IRISH WATER SAFETY CONCERNED ABOUT TRAINING OF DIVERS AFTER LATEST DONEGAL DEATH was last modified: July 14th, 2014 by Stephen Maguire
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Stephen Maguire

Stephen Maguire is the co-founder of Donegal Daily. He has worked as a reporter for almost 30 years starting locally with the Donegal Peoples Press before moving to the Mirror Group. He continues to contribute daily to national media outlets including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Independent, Irish Sun, Irish Mirror, Irish Star, the Daily Mail and the Examiner.

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