Donegal Diving Event Cancelled After Man’s Death

23rd June 2024

The Sligo-based Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 118 was dispatched to the scene off Teelin in Co Donegal on Saturday 22 June

RTÉ News reports that investigations are under way after a diver died in an incident off Co Donegal on Saturday (22 June).

Patrick Doran (49) from Carrick-on-Shannon got into difficulty while on a scheduled dive as part of the North West Dive Rally in Teelin Bay.

Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Doran’s dive partner, a man in his sixties, was airlifted to University Hospital Galway which has a chamber for treatment of decompression sickness, aka ‘the bends’.

Some 100 divers from sub aqua clubs around Ireland were taking part in the North West Dive Rally, which was cancelled in the wake of the incident. RTÉ News has more on the story HERE.

Published in Diving

Tagged under

About The Author

Afloat.ie Team

Email The Author

Afloat.ie is Ireland's dedicated marine journalism team.

Have you got a story for our reporters? Email us here.

We've got a favour to ask

More people are reading Afloat.ie than ever thanks to the power of the internet but we're in stormy seas because advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news sites, we haven't put up a paywall because we want to keep our marine journalism open.

Afloat.ie is Ireland's only full-time marine journalism team and it takes time, money and hard work to produce our content.

So you can see why we need to ask for your help.

If everyone chipped in, we can enhance our coverage and our future would be more secure. You can help us through a small donation. Thank you.