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Since 1984 The Hyperbaric Chamber Saving Lives

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All volunteer operation seeking more volunteers. To apply fill out a form at the city’s website.

HyChamber

The chamber is essential for treating pressure-related issues, including decompression sickness, arterial gas embolism and high-altitude sickness. However, it’s also a life-saving tool in treating carbon monoxide poisoning, according to Director of the Pacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber Justin Cooper, who also works separately as a division chief for the Monterey Fire Department. As the cold weather sets in, more people are turning on their heaters. These pose a risk for carbon monoxide poisoning and Cooper urges residents to check that their heaters, smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors are working properly.

Since 1984 The Hyperbaric Chamber Saving Lives

P.G. Decompression Chamber Still In Operation

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Didn’t know that.

Cannery Row Divers Memorial

At around 9 a.m. Oct. 20, firefighters were dispatched to a medical emergency at Wharf 2 in Monterey “for a diver who lost consciousness during a rapid ascent from 99 feet below the surface,” he said. The fire department helped treat the diver, who was not identified, until an ambulance arrived and paramedics took over. They took the victim to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, where the emergency team quickly evaluated the diver’s condition and referred the case to the P.G. Hyperbaric Chamber for treatment

P.G. Decompression Chamber Still In Operation

Unresponsive Diver Pulled From Water At San Carlos Beach

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San Carlos Beach

 

Sgt. Michael Lyke went missing while he was diving with a group off San Carlos Beach Park and did not resurface, according to KSBW-TV.

The Monterey Fire Department division chief told Gold Country Media he was unconscious when a lifeguard and another diver found him.

Lyke died at the hospital.

Unresponsive Diver Pulled From Water At San Carlos Beach

Diver Dies At San Carlos Beach

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A diver who encountered problems during a training exercise at San Carlos Beach in Monterey over the weekend has died, coroner’s office officials confirmed Thursday.

Exactly when she died is unclear, but on Saturday afternoon when she was taken to the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula for treatment, paramedics said she was unresponsive and had a pulse.

Diver Dies At San Carlos Beach

Hyperbaric Chamber At P.G. Fire Station Back In Use

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Story came just after a diver died at Stillwater Cove.

The chamber was not used for the diving victims Monday. They had the chamber on standby. The team was waiting for permission from physicians to admit the divers for the treatment, however one passed away, and the other diver did not show symptoms of decompression sickness. As a result, the chamber was not used.
It would have been the first time in nearly a year that this chamber would have been used again. It is one of the three in the whole state of California. There is one in San Diego, and one in Catalina. The chamber was temporarily not in use here because of insurance issues.

Hyperbaric Chamber At P.G. Fire Station Back In Use

June Diver Down Roundup

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Be safe, dive with a buddy.

Frank Sunset

June 16 – Diver reported missing at San Carlos Beach

According to the Monterey Fire Department, the diver reportedly went missing into the bay around 11 Sunday morning. Authorities say the diver’s truck is parked at the San Carlos Beach parking lot. Officials say they found a flashlight in the water, but it’s unknown if it belongs to the missing man

June 21 – Body of diver recovered from beach

The Monterey County Coroner’s Office has been called to San Carlos Beach to retrieve a drowning victim who may be the diver reported missing Sunday night.

“To be honest, I don’t know how anybody would be able to make an ID that quickly. I don’t know the condition of the body,” said Sonne, who had just spoken with a sergeant at the scene who reported the coroner had just arrived.

The drowning victim was discovered by other divers floating in a kelp bed about 30 yards off shore Friday morning. Sonne said he was in diving gear, minus his tanks.

The family of a Marin County man reported him missing Sunday night. Police found his car parked at San Carlos Beach and his flashlight underwater, but could not locate him and called off the search Monday.

June 24 – Lone diver dies at Breakwater Cove

Albert Reed MacKay, 43, of Yuba City, Calif., was diving about 25 feet underwater when something went wrong.

Nearby divers found MacKay, pulled him up to the surface, dragged him out of the ocean, and started CPR at 3:30 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Teen Diver Deaths Ruled Accidental

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The deaths of Stephen Anderson, 16, and Keegan Aiazzi, 17, both of Carson City, Nev. were caused by asphyxia due to ocean drowning, the coroner’s report stated. The teens drowned on April 9.

They said forensic inspection of their scuba diving gear showed there hadn’t been any failure to the systems. The gear, recovered from the ocean floor, was tested by Master Dive Repair Technician Ernest Bourne. It was tested in a laboratory and also in ocean conditions similar to what the teens would’ve experienced, the Coroner’s Unit said.

Teen Diver Deaths Ruled Accidental

Diver Rescued From Bay Dies

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A San Jose scuba diver who was brought ashore unconscious and not breathing Sunday off Pacific Grove has become the Peninsula’s third diving-related fatality this month.

Kristina Gomez-Weese, 43, died late Monday at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.

Gomez-Weese was found by her two diving partners in 70 feet of water between Lovers Point and Point Pinos about 11 a.m. Sunday, said Coast Guard Lt. John Suckow.

Diver Rescued From Bay Dies

Another Diving Accident Off Pacific Grove Beach

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On the heels of the accident where two teens died.

Frank Sunset

Coast Guard Lt. John Suckow said they were called shortly after 11 a.m. on a report that the woman, diving with two men off a 20-foot boat, was in distress. Her dive mates brought her to the surface, placed her in the boat and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until they met a Coast Guard rescue boat, which brought her to the pier.

Another Diving Accident Off Pacific Grove Beach