{"id":16012,"date":"2014-06-19T22:44:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16012"},"modified":"2014-06-19T23:28:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:28:27","slug":"cave-diver-dies-in-enchanted-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/19\/cave-diver-dies-in-enchanted-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Cave diver dies in Enchanted River"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16015\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/398119_287237944657411_1104752104_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16015\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/398119_287237944657411_1104752104_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Enchanted River \/ Facebook Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/398119_287237944657411_1104752104_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/398119_287237944657411_1104752104_n.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enchanted River \/ Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A surgeon and cave diver, who went to Enchanted River in Surigao del Sur to put safety measures for a scheduled television shooting, died after failing\u00a0to come out of the cave.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Dr. Alfonso Ramirez went to the river along with professional divers but failed to come out on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was excited because diving in Enchanted River is always a challenge, it&#8217;s never easy. When you get to get out from there, it&#8217;s already a big accomplishment for us divers,&#8221; Andy Berame of Lapu-Lapu City&#8217;s Task Force Kalikasan\u00a0said in a report for ABS-CBN News.<\/p>\n<p>Amores trained the Lapu-Lapu City&#8217;s Task Force Kalikasan and was in charge of the creation of sanctuaries around Lapu-Lapu City.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a licensed cave and scuba diver who received training in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>His body, which will be brought back to Cebu on Wednesday night, was retrieved 40 meters deep, 8 hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Lapu-Lapu City Vice Mayor Mario Amores, brother of the surgeon-cave diver immediately went to Surigao del Sur after learning about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Amores&#8217; wife will also be coming home from the United States.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from ABS-CBN News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A surgeon and cave diver, who went to Enchanted River in Surigao del Sur to put safety measures &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[5659,5658],"class_list":["post-16012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-enchanted-river","tag-surgeon-cave-diver","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}