A 50-year-old Swiss man died this afternoon after feeling ill while snorkeling near Cais do Sardinha, in Ponta de São Lourenço.
According to the National Maritime Authority, an SOS was received at 16:29 through the Regional Civil Protection Service of Madeira, and elements of the Local Command of the Maritime Police of Funchal, the Municipal Firefighters of Machico, and the Rapid Intervention Medical Team (EMIR) were immediately mobilised.
The victim was transported to the Quinta do Lorde Marina, where the rescue services found that he was in cardiorespiratory arrest. Resuscitation manoeuvres were immediately initiated, but the man died. The causes that led to the occurrence remain, for now, unknown.
Samantha Gannon
info at madeira-weekly/com
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