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PADI Gold Palm scuba instructor, tourist diver drown scuba diving in Saipan

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by LUTHER MONROE - CDNN Safety News Editor

SAIPAN (19 July 2005) -- Two young female scuba divers drowned while scuba diving in Saipan.

Mayumi Fukuda, 25, a Japanese scuba diving instructor employed by PADI Gold Palm Pastime Saipan Inc, and Megumi Morita, 25, a Japanese tourist diver participating in a PADI Advanced diving course died at Grotto, a cavern dive popular with advanced level divers.

One witness told CDNN that Fukuda was leading a group of divers that descended in the Grotto and exited the cavern at a depth of about 20 meters when Morita panicked.

Both divers rapidly ascended to the surface.

Volunteer rescue divers found Morita on the day of the accident. Fukuda was found the next day.

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