PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) - The Clallam County sheriff’s office says a commercial diver found unconscious 50 feet below the surface of the water off Washington’s Dungeness Spit has been airlifted to a Seattle hospital.
Sgt. Lyman Moores said 24-year-old Samuel Silverstein of Bremerton was reported in critical condition on life support Tuesday at Harborview Medical Center.
Moores says Silverstein and another man had been diving for geoduck (GOO’-ee-duhk) clams.
The second man brought Silverstein to the surface. He was taken on board a state Department of Natural Resources boat that responded to the diving boat’s call for help. Moores says CPR was started immediately.
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