CONISTON, UK (21 Apr 2007) -- A woman scuba diver who was seriously injured in an accident at Hodge Close Quarry at Coniston last weekend remains in hospital in North Cumbria. The woman, 24, who comes from Chorley, Lancashire, has been detained in the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle. Twelve members of Coniston mountain rescue team were called out to help the woman, who fell four metres and injured her head and back while making her way down a ladder to a flooded quarry. The woman was one of a party of four people. She was due to take part in an organised scuba dive. A team spokesman said: "She was going down the ladder and as she was on the second rung her foot got caught and she fell backwards." He said that the woman has a fractured skull as well as a fracture to one of her vertebrae. There is also a break in another vertebrae. Doctors at the CIC are still assessing what action to take to repair the damage, he added. The mountain rescue involved a horizontal stretcher lift to a tunnel which accesses the quarry hole. The casualty was then carried out through the partially-flooded underground level. | 
