{"id":83944,"date":"2026-04-17T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/64-year-old-english-diver-dies-in-hospital-after-experiencing-difficulty\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:53:00","slug":"64-year-old-english-diver-dies-in-hospital-after-experiencing-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/64-year-old-english-diver-dies-in-hospital-after-experiencing-difficulty\/","title":{"rendered":"64-year-old English diver dies in hospital after experiencing difficulty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>64-year-old English diver dies in hospital after experiencing difficulty<\/p>\n<p>A 64-year-old man died in Mater Dei Hospital shortly after experiencing difficulties while diving off the coast of Wied iz-Zurrieq on Friday, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that the Englishman, whose identity was not provided, passed away on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the police and the Civil Protection Department (CPD) arrived at the scene and retrieved the diver from the sea, at around 3:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>A medical team quickly assisted the diver right as he was taken back to land.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that the man was certified dead shortly after arriving in Mater Dei Hospital via ambulance for emergency care.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Philip Galea Farrugia has appointed an inquiry into this death, while police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-04-17\/local-news\/64-year-old-English-diver-dies-in-hospital-after-experiencing-difficulty-6736288896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">64-year-old English diver dies in hospital after experiencing difficulty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>64-year-old English diver dies in hospital after experiencing difficulty A 64-year-old man died in Mater Dei Hospital shortly after experiencing difficulties while diving off the coast of Wied iz-Zurrieq on Friday, police said in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-83944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}