Dehydration may have led to scuba death

♦ A British Transport Police officer who died while scuba diving in Gran Canaria might have lost her life through being dehydrated after going for a run, an inquest heard.

Justine Barringer, 44, from Sittingbourne, Kent, had gone for a 40-minute jog the night before her dive last September and possible dehydration might have triggered rhabdomyolysis, a form of muscle damage, affecting organs such as the heart and kidneys, the inquest heard.

She died after losing consciousness while resurfacing. The UK inquest concluded her death was accidental.