Tragic Diver Death in Miami! Scuba and Hookah divers Beware! Watch this now and live!
A diver doing work on hookah dies while performing dredging operations in Miami Dade County in Florida, USA. The diver was rescued by the brave men and women of Miami Dade fire rescue, but ultimately died in the hospital. We received exclusive reports from officials that detailed what contributed to this diver's death. A tragic avoidable accident that continues to happen in the construction trade. Do not do work on hookah, you will die, and it violates OSHA regs. Underwater construction work should not be done by scuba divers! It is only for trained commercial divers that have attended an accredited commercial dive school on surface supplied air with communications.
Hookah rigs are not in compliance with the OSHA commercial diving standard because such rigs prohibit diver-to-topside communications, which
is a requirement for all surface-supplied diving operations (see 29 CFR 1910.422(c)(1)(i)).
Further, assembling a hookah rig by using a second-stage regulator from a SCUBA regulator assembly can pose a severe hazard to divers. Second-stage SCUBA regulators are designed to function properly when supplied with pressure in a specified range (such as from 125 to 150 psi
over the ambient water pressure).
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