Safety warning after double diver tragedy
Cork City coroner Dr Myra Cullinane urged re-creational divers to follow the Irish Underwater Council’s rules and regulations while engaging in the risky sport in a bid to avert future similar tragedies.
She was speaking after holding a joint inquest into the deaths of experienced divers Stephen Clarke, 65, from Capel Dorking, Surrey, in Britain, and Jonathan Scott, 61, from Morley in Western Australia. They both drowned while diving on the wreck of a German U-boat about 3.5km south of High Island near Union Hall in West Cork on July 2 last.
