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Diver dies in decompression accident


 A woman has died after a decompression accident while she was scuba diving off Durban on Wednesday.

The National Sea Rescue Institute says the 44-year-old Australian woman, reportedly now living in Durban, had been diving at depth, at a submarine wreck, 10km off-shore.

NSRI Durban station commander, Clifford Ireland, says she reportedly surfaced at speed and this is believed to have caused a decompression accident.

He says the woman's body was handed over to forensic pathologists, and an inquest docket was opened by police.