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Monday, July 14, 2025

Deep-sea diver drowns in Chag

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Thir­ty-two-year-old fa­ther of eight Shein Gomez drowned on Sun­day while deep-sea fish­ing be­low the Caribbean Dock Yard jet­ty, Cha­gau­ra­mas.Gomez's fa­ther Fran­cis Gomez said his son did not re­spect the sea as he should have.He added: "He and his friends were hunt­ing fish be­low the jet­ty and about 45 feet down there is a lot of col­lapsed iron and piles form­ing a canopy where the big fish go to hide. "I didn't know if they went un­der the canopy. If they had alert­ed me that was the kind of div­ing they were do­ing I would have put a stop to it.

"I am all about safe­ty. I don't play with the sea. I fish­ing over 30 years and I know that you have to re­spect the sea. He didn't re­spect the sea as he should have. I on­ly find out the kind of risk he tak­ing yes­ter­day af­ter the in­ci­dent. "You al­ready div­ing so deep, at the edge of your lim­it, and then you want to go un­der a canopy? No," lament­ed Gomez.The younger Gomez died af­ter his div­ing belt got tan­gled with de­bris be­neath the wa­ter.The se­nior Gomez said Coast Guard of­fi­cers told him his son would have been alive if he had re­leased the belt.Gomez's body was re­cov­ered around 12.30 pm on Sun­day af­ter he got in­to dif­fi­cul­ty a few hours ear­li­er.

Gomez said his son, who lived at St Ann's Road, St Ann's, made a liv­ing as a taxi dri­ver but used to do div­ing to earn ex­tra cash.He added: "I taught him to dive–I am a fish­er­man–but maybe I didn't give him enough of the safe­ty part. He was a very good div­er."I was in Cha­cachacare do­ing char­ter and had to aban­don the trip be­cause I got the call say­ing he died. So I came up when I get the call, and by time I reach, the Coast Guard were al­ready there."Gomez said his son's friends be­came wor­ried when his son did not sur­face af­ter some time had passed and one of them went to see what was hap­pen­ing but on­ly saw his fish­ing gun.He added his son would usu­al­ly go to depths greater than his friends so they were un­able to as­sist him and had to call in the Coast Guard.


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