Tobago: A 29-year-old son of an energy tycoon has died of a rare illness associated by deep sea diving, while being rushed to hopsital following a dive at Speyside, Tobago.
Scott Tucker was due to be married within weeks. He was the heir of the Tucker Energy Services, a 76-year-old company spread across several parts of the Western Hemisphere and Australia.
Police reports indicate that Tucker experienced a rare decompression sickness arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body, after ascending from water depths.
"Bends" as it is best known, is a diving disorder that affects divers having breathed gas that is at a higher pressure than the surface pressure, due to the pressure of the surrounding water. He died on his way to the Scarborough Regional Hospital.
He was due to marry Amanda Hadeed in three weeks. Tucker has escaped death in 2003 when a vehicle he was driving slammed into a 25-foot lightpole on the Solomon Hochoy Highway in Trinidad, suffering serious internal injuries and a broken leg.
A 37-year-old corporal of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force also drowned at the Nylon Pool in Tobago.
Bevon Taylor of Four Roads, Bon Accord was with friends cleaning their boats at the Nylon Pool where he went under the shallow waters. His body was found floating in the water a short while later.
He was taken to the nearby Pigeon Point, before being transported by ambulance to the Scarborough Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Taylor leaves to mourn his wife and nine-year-old daughter. Police are continuing investigations.
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