A 40-year-old diver was rescued and rushed to the hospital after experiencing a medical emergency near the Haulover Inlet in Northeast Miami-Dade. The Coast Guard’s swift actions played out last night when they received a distress call from a dive boat positioned just outside of the Haulover Inlet, alerting them to a diver in distress, as WSVN reported.
According to the dispatchers, “Be advised we just received a call from the Coast Guard receiving a diver down on a dive boat just outside of Haulover Inlet.” The man lost consciousness while surfacing and, upon the Coast Guard’s arrival, was retrieved from the water and life-saving measures were performed on shore before he was transported by ground to Aventura Hospital. During the operation, “It’s one diver. They are performing CPR,” said a dispatcher, emphasizing the urgency of the situation. However, at the time of reporting, the man’s current state was not made public, as noted by WSVN.
In a separate incident on the same day, the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a critical scenario involving yet another diver, this one found unresponsive near Fort Lauderdale. The diver, who was also 40 years old, was on a dive boat named the Sea Señora roughly two miles east of Fort Lauderdale’s coast when his condition became dire, NBC Miami informs…