BY Cayman Net News

Blackburn and Burnley General hospitals in Lancashire.

Ms Baxter, who came from Colne in Lancashire, is understood to have visited Grand Cayman during a two-week Caribbean cruise.

She was accompanied on the trip by her 68-year-old mother who remained in Grand Cayman after the incident and flew back to the UK last week.

Ms Baxter, a certified divemaster, was on an organised dive trip in the vicinity of North West Point when she appears to have lost consciousness while returning to the surface.

At around 10:40 pm the crew of the dive boat initiated a 911 call reporting that they were heading for the dock at West Bay public beach and they began to administer CPR to Ms Baxter.

The identity of a 47-year-old woman, who died while scuba diving on Saturday, 19 January, has been revealed.

While authorities in the Cayman Islands have released no information apart from an initial press release, a newspaper in the UK, the Burnley Citizen, has identified the victim as Tina Baxter, a matron at the Royal
She was then rushed by ambulance to George Town Hospital but could not be resuscitated.

A post mortem was completed last week although, due to lengthy process required to convene an inquest in Grand Cayman, the results are unlikely to be made public for a long while.

Subject to completion of investigations by the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) and the cruise line, her body is expected to be returned to the UK early in February.

The Burnley Citizen reports that Ms Baxter’s family are keen to find out exactly what happened.

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