Diver with "bends" airlifted from boat off Brighton coast

5:07pm Sunday 5th July 2009

By Ben Parsons, Crime Reporter

A diver has been airlifted from a boat off the coast of Brighton after suffering from symptoms of the bends.

The 50-year-old woman was taken to a recompression unit in Poole, Dorset, by the coastguard helicopter after the alarm was raised.

Solent Coastguard said the dive boat, Channel Diver, was about nine miles south of Brighton.

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