Tourist Dies At Mammoth Cave !!!

[Larry E. Matthews]

The Channel 5 Television news here in Nashville just reported that a 67-year old tourist died on a tour at Mammoth Cave today. Probably a heart attack.

Anybody have any more information?

Larry

[Squirrel Girl]

From google news:
http://www.bgdailynews.com/news/local/f ... f887a.html

[NZcaver]

NPS Press Release:

A visitor touring Mammoth Cave passed away in the cave on the afternoon of May 9, 2012.

William Larry Martin, 67, of Bronson, Florida, was on the 11:00 a.m. Historic cave tour when he became ill in River Hall, about one and one-half miles into the two-mile tour. The tour guides telephoned their supervisor on the surface for assistance at 12:20 p.m. and immediately began CPR. Emergency medical technician rangers and a rescue crew entered the cave at 12:35 p.m. and arrived on the scene at 12:45 p.m.

In River Hall, rangers administered CPR and applied an automatic external defibrillator (AED). In spite of these efforts, Mr. Martin did not survive and was declared dead at 1:18 p.m.

Mammoth Cave National Park personnel and Edmonson County EMS personnel assisted in the incident.

http://www.nps.gov/maca/parknews/visito ... e-tour.htm