OSHA, Coast Guard: Injured working SCUBA diver listed in ’serious’ condition | Cdiver.net
GLOUCESTER, MA — The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is leading an investigation with the U.S. Coast Guard into the circumstances surrounding an accident that injured a Gloucester diver Thursday at Harbor Loop, Coast Guard Lt. David Otani said yesterday.
The diver, Ted Barnes, 48, was listed in serious condition last night at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Barnes, who owns Gloucester-based Freedom Diving Corp., was cleaning the propeller and working beneath the gillnetter Ocean Pride III, which was moored near the Gloucester Seafood Auction, when the accident occurred.
The Coast Guard reported yesterday that Barnes’ air and tending lines became entangled in the propeller of a vessel. A tending line usually connects diver to the boat.
Geordie King, the boat’s owner, said he had been unaware Barnes was cleaning the boat when he started the engine just after 3 p.m. Thursday. King has said the boat was not in gear, and that the propeller still turns slowly when this happens. But he suspected that’s what injured Barnes.
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OSHA, Coast Guard: Injured working SCUBA diver listed in ’serious’ condition | Cdiver.net
