CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A teen-age student diver near St. Thomas drowned during an underwater class on Saturday morning, Virgin Islands Police said.
The unidentified 16-year-old was attending a beginners class on Buck Island, St. Thomas when he experienced a medical issue at 10:30 a.m., VIPD Communications Director Glen Dratte said today.
The medical issue caused the victim to “become unresponsive: during the dive and he was pulled aboard the boat for emergency treatment, according to Dratte.
Despite CPR being administered to the minor, he did not respond to treatment by 10:57 a.m., the VIPD spokesman said.
“Rescue officers met with a dive boat at Yacht Haven Grande, who advised that an individual partaking in a diving excursion had gotten in to distress while underwater, and became unresponsive.,” St. Thomas Rescue said on Facebook.