Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo -For the second time in 90 days, a Canadian citizen has died while scuba diving one of this area's most well known cenotes, natural sinkholes which dot the local landscape. The accident occurred Thursday.
Martín Joseph Simard, whose hometown has not been reported, was diving cenote Chac Mool with a group of foreign tourists escorted by an experienced guide, according to the regional press. He experienced problems with his regulator and signaled the guide that he need to surface. By the time they did so Simard was choking and vomiting. First aid was applied and emergency help was summoned, but Simard was dead by the time paramedics arrived.
