He noted that Mr Goh appeared to be doing breathing exercises in the pool and was not swimming laps. Mr Goh had gone to a swimming pool at Mimosa Park in the Yio Chu Kang area with his wife on the evening of Mar 27 last year.Īt about 7.10pm, a resident entered the pool to swim some laps. He ruled the death of Mr Danzel Goh Choon Meng, who leaves behind a wife and son, a misadventure. In findings made available on Friday (Jan 14), State Coroner Adam Nakhoda cautioned against practising prolonged underwater breath-holding after hyperventilating, advising such practitioners to have a buddy in the pool focusing on them at all times. SINGAPORE: A man who drowned while practising a breathing method underwater likely suffered a shallow water blackout as a result of holding his breath underwater after he had hyperventilated, a coroner has found.
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