![]() When his heartbeat had stabilised, Mr Hackwell, 49, from Gloucester, was transferred to hospital where specialists discovered a blocked artery and inserted a stent. Leslie Hackwell's heart stopped again and again as doctors fought for 20 minutes to save him. Guinness World Records no longer monitor figures for the most times a heart has stopped, but two years ago a father of four 'died' 32 times. "The professionalism of these two men is second to none - they must be the finest in the country."Ĭolin Elding, of the British Heart Foundation, said: "Twelve shocks in one incident is quite unusual." They worked on him for about 40 minutes to save his life. His 59-year-old wife said: "It was a dreadful experience but the paramedics were wonderful. I remember them coming in but I don't recall much after that." ![]() Mr Rosser, who has two grown-up children, added: "I'm just glad the boys got there so quickly. He was readmitted ten days later with complications but is now back home in Treharris, South Wales, where he is 'doing well'. Mr Rosser, a non-smoker, spent six days in hospital, where a stent - a small mesh tube - was fitted to keep a damaged artery open. "As the helicopter was lifting off an overwhelming sense of what had just occurred dawned on me and made me feel immensely proud and somewhat emotional." Mr Jones said: "I've been a paramedic for five years and I've never known us have to shock someone 12 times. The crew then gave Mr Rosser an anti-blood clot injection but he suffered two more arrests before he was stable enough to be flown to hospital by air ambulance. ![]() He kept suffering cardiac arrests - it happened ten times and each time we got a pulse.' "But moments later it went again and so I gave him another shock, once again resulting in a pulse. I charged up the defibrillator and we shocked him and his pulse came back. "But once we put the electrocardiograph on him it told a different story - basically he was having a massive heart attack in front of us. Mr Jones, 39, said: "When we got there he didn't look too bad - he was a bit grey and sweaty. Paramedics arrived at the caravan park within eight minutes. He knew it was a heart attack after suffering a slight coronary eight years ago so asked his wife to dial 999. Mr Rosser and his wife Susan were spending a weekend at their caravan in Lydstep Haven, near Tenby, West Wales, when he collapsed with chest pains. "I feel much better now and it's all thanks to the ambulance crew that I am here at all," he said. So divers must use the muscles of their diaphragm when they breathe, to get the oxygen into that lower part of the lungs.Yesterday, 58-year-old Mr Rosser thanked Gareth Jones and Roger Hubbard for saving his life. The lower third of the lungs contain two-thirds of the blood supply, and it is the blood that holds the oxygen and carries it throughout the body. To counteract the impact, divers must train in proper breathing techniques. Free divers basically push their bodies to the limit: as they descend hundreds of feet, their heart rates slow to as low as 14 beats a minute, their lungs shrink and blood surges from the extremities to the heart and the brain. Unlike scuba divers, free divers do not use oxygen tanks, and instead, simply take a deep breath and dive at least 400 feet, the equivalent of a 40-story skyscraper. It puts the body through great physiological changes, which in some cases leads to death. The divers say there is a sense of euphoria being so far down, and liken the experience to being in outer space. There are about 5,000 free divers around the world, and an estimated 100 die each year. The dive was only supposed to take three minutes, and she had been underwater more than nine minutes without oxygen.įree diving is dangerous, and in some cases deadly sport. The woman who had become the world's best free diver had died. Ferreras desperately tried to revive her using mouth-to-mouth, but it was too late. A safety diver activated an emergency inflatable device, and rushed her to the surface using his inflatable jacket. Together, they were the most famous free-diving couple in the world.īut on Mestre's way up to the surface during that fateful dive, she blacked out at a depth of 300 feet. She was trying to break the "no limits" dive world record of 531.5 feet set by her husband, Francisco "Pipin" Ferreras in January 2000. Mestre was attached to a 200-pound weight mounted on a steel cable to help her get to the proper depth. She blacked out and died Saturday after her plunge into deep waters near La Romana, 81 miles east of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. But the 28-year-old French woman did not make it back up alive. ![]() 17, 2002 - Champion free diver Audrey Mestre took a single breath, then dove 561 feet to try to try to break a world record.
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