The company advises on its website that the shipwreck is more suitable to advanced divers. Squalo sells the dive for $115 per person. The trip the Americans were taking part in was a four-hour dive to the wreckage of the USS Harlequin which the Mexican Navy sank in 1980 in order to create an artificial reef. He runs various snorkel and scuba excursions. Photos from the scene shows forensics teams working on one of the victimsĪndres has been running the center on Isla Mujeres for 16 years.
'When you are diving, you have to wait in line. 'They did not follow the rules, they just wanted to drop their divers off. 'The propellers are very large - they hit the two experienced divers on the head and they did not survive.
'They didn't take any precautions - we were the only ones there. the other big huge boat was passing through and it hit us. He has not been named.Īndres was not on the dive but his divemaster and the other two divers who survived relayed to him what happened in horrifying detail.
Mexican media reports that the captain of Mr. Instead, they sailed through in a hurry, their propellers chugging through the water, to drop their own divers off. He added that it is an 'international pact' among divers to wait at a dive site if another boat is already there to avoid such an accident, but that Scuba Cancun ignored it. 'It was a tragic accident,' Andres said on Saturday.
The 'Mr Tom' boat has now been seized by the authorities in Isla Mujeres. The other two divers and the divemaster survived. Tom's propellers' struck the two Americans fatally on the head, according to Andres. Tom, a larger vessel owned by the Cancun-based Scuba Cancun, sailed over them. The owner of the company, who gave his name only as Andres, told that they were nearing the end of their dive and using buoy lines to make their way back to their boat when Mr. The pair were taking part in a four hour, two tank dive at a shipwreck in Isla Mujeres that was arranged by Squalo Adventures. Their families are now on the way to Isla Mujeres and Cancun to retrieve their bodies. Local media reports initially identified them incorrectly as being a man and a woman.ĭ can reveal that they were experienced divers and marine biologists with over 20 years of experience. The two Americans have not yet been identified but they are understood to be two men, both single, aged 60 and 65. The owner of the Cancun scuba diving company in charge of two Americans who were killed in the water in a propeller accident on Friday has revealed to that another company's boat struck them on the head, causing them to die. He told another company's boat interrupted their dive and sailed over them reached out to police to clarify.Īndres is the owner of the scuba company the two Americans were diving with. Other news outlets have reported that the couple drowned, and that they were also Canadian. It is not immediately clear what caused the accident or who was responsible, the outlet reported. The outlet said one of the bodies was taken to Isla Mujeres while the other was taken to Cancun. It was there that they sustained their injuries from the boat propeller. The American pair boarded a Squalo Adventures tourism boat to an area where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea meet to snorkel among artificial reefs and sunken ships, the outlet said. Two American tourists have allegedly been killed by a boat propeller while snorkeling in Mexico.Īn unidentified 65-year-old man and 60-year-old woman died after they were reportedly chopped up by a boat propeller while snorkeling in the waters just off the coast of Cancun, the Mexican outlet Noti Carib reported on Friday. It is not immediately clear what caused the accident or who was responsible. The pair boarded a Squalo Adventures tourism boat to an area where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea meet to snorkel among artificial reefs. An unidentified 65-year-old man and 60-year-old woman died in the waters near Isla Mujeres, just off the coast of Cancun, in a boat accident. American trading hours are most active while the S&P 500 is showing more and more correlation to Bitcoin movements.American man, 65, and woman, 60, are killed after 'being chopped up by a boat propeller' while snorkeling off the coast of Cancun. adding 900% in market cap since October. According to the report titled 'The State of Crypto Travel Rule Compliance Report. A nightclub in Miami is set to return from a year of a pandemic shutdown by starting accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a form of payment. 000% and $AXS price spiked above $11 after the community migrated to the Ronin sidechain in order to secure lower fees and support the game’s rapid growth. "Si podemos cambiar el sistema en el que se crean estos avisos. ' 56 businesses from all over the world responded to the survey.
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