Diver serious after accident in Puerto Pollensa

He dived to 21 metres

Puerto Pollensa | Photo: Archive

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporterPollensa05/06/2025 19:16

A 31-year-old diver was taken to hospital in a serious condition on Thursday after suffering a dysbaric accident.

Emergency services were called to Puerto Pollensa around 10am. The man had dived with an oxygen tank to a depth of 21 metres. He had chest pain and dizziness. Dysbaric accidents include decompression sickness.

He was given first aid by people on the boat he was with prior to medics arriving, and then taken to the hospital in Playa de Muro.

In July last year, a 50-year-old man suffered alternobaric vertigo while diving in Puerto Pollensa. He was placed in a hyperbaric chamber at a Palma clinic.

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Sage Advice | 18 days ago

Correction, no one uses an “Oxygen Tank” to dive, they use a SCUBA Tank. And just to be clear if you did use pure oxygen while diving past 30 feet you would experience oxygen toxicity- This means the excess oxygen overwhelms the body's systems, leading to oxidative damage to cell membranes, collapse of the alveoli in the lungs, and seizures. This diver likely got a case of the bends or decompression sickness.

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