Suit Too Big For Diver, Coroner Told

A 23-year-old nursing student who died in a diving accident off the Devon coast, drowned because her semi-drysuit was too large for her, an inquest has heard. Carina Beer, a 5ft 4in and 8st London King's College student, wore a men's size 7mm semi-drysuit when she lost consciousness during the shore dive at Brixham Breakwater in Devon in March last year. The second-year King's College London student from Oxford was diving with the university's dive club in 7A‚A?C water temperatures. South Devon coroner Ian Arrow was told that Beer had little experience of cold water diving and that her suit had filled with water and had caused her temperature to drop...