06/2019 - Maryland Couple Found Dead at Dominican Republic Resort

[SrSuerte]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...510698631.html

Cynthia Day, 49, and fiancé Nathaniel Holmes, 63, had been staying at the Bahia Principe hotel since May 25

A couple from Prince George’s county, Maryland, was found dead while vacationing in the Dominican Republic, relatives said. News4's Shomari Stone reports.

A couple from Prince George’s County, Maryland, were found dead while vacationing in the Dominican Republic, relatives said.
The bodies of Cynthia Day, 49, of Upper Marlboro, and her fiancé Nathaniel Holmes, 63, were found Thursday in their room at the Bahia Principe hotel at the resort Playa Nueva Romana, in the southeast coast of the island, The Dominican Today, a local newspaper, reported.
Sonya Jackson, Cynthia’s sister, told News4’s Shomari Stone that the U.S. Embassy confirmed the couple was found dead in the resort.
Day and Holmes, who according to relatives were engaged, had been staying at the vacation spot since May 25, The Dominican Today reported. They were supposed to fly back home on Thursday.


Holmes’ sister said she talked to him a couple of days ago, and he told her he “was having a great time.”
The bodies showed "no signs of violence," according to The Dominican Today. Investigators have not determined the cause or manner of death.
Dajuan Holmes-Hamilton, Nathaniel Holmes' daughter, said she wants the mystery solved.

"It should have never happened," she said.

[j_d66]

Just saw a story today about a lady severely beaten while staying at a punta cana resort

not very good press for them

https://www.facebook.com/1344665223/...268216&sfns=mo

[Don Tomas]

Natural causes, nothing to see, move along....

[camaro1257]

Natural causes, nothing to see, move along....

Two of them? A 63 and 49 year old die of natural causes together at the same time in the same Dominican resort and that's not fishy?

Nahhhhhhhhhh I suspect there is more to the story...

[Westy]

Two of them? A 63 and 49 year old die of natural causes together at the same time in the same Dominican resort and that's not fishy?

Nahhhhhhhhhh I suspect there is more to the story...

Something fishy indeed ...

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[Don Tomas]

Natural causes, nothing to see, move along....

Two of them? A 63 and 49 year old die of natural causes together at the same time in the same Dominican resort and that's not fishy?

Nahhhhhhhhhh I suspect there is more to the story...

I was being sarcastic but the initial report is pulmonary edema for both of them and they both had high blood pressure.

Might just have been natural causes related to the long flight, resort activities, bedroom activities and/or bad health.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/02/us/ma...ath/index.html

[Jimmydr]

I was being sarcastic but the initial report is pulmonary edema for both of them and they both had high blood pressure.

Might just have been natural causes related to the long flight, resort activities, bedroom activities and/or bad health.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/02/us/ma...ath/index.html

Still strange.

[CentralNJDude]

I was being sarcastic but the initial report is pulmonary edema for both of them and they both had high blood pressure.

Might just have been natural causes related to the long flight, resort activities, bedroom activities and/or bad health.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/02/us/ma...ath/index.html

Not to step into Westy's territory but scuba diving can also cause pulmonary edema especially if they are new to it and had a lousy instructor or guide.

[Jimmydr]

Not to step into Westy's territory but scuba diving can also cause pulmonary edema especially if they are new to it and had a lousy instructor or guide.

Killed by scuba diving?

[Westy]

Not to step into Westy's territory but scuba diving can also cause pulmonary edema especially if they are new to it and had a lousy instructor or guide.

True! I'm not going to go into detail -- because if you don't dive, you don't need to worry about it, and if you dive, you've been schooled about it.

Were the decedents scuba-divers? Remember, there are a LOT more reasons to incur pulmonary edema. It's not even mentioned in my NAUI Advanced manual.

[CentralNJDude]

The few times I dived, I was happy to come up blowing bubbles.
Didnt realize I was claustrophobic till I was stuck in a cenote river in Mexico for a couple of miles. Was so glad to surface for air.

[Westy]

The few times I dived, I was happy to come up blowing bubbles.
Didnt realize I was claustrophobic till I was stuck in a cenote river in Mexico for a couple of miles. Was so glad to surface for air.

Diving in a cenote? A couple of MILES? Dear Lord ... I can't even....

[Jimmydr]

Diving in a cenote? A couple of MILES? Dear Lord ... I can't even....

That is very deep?

[Westy]

That is very deep?

No, not deep -- it's a question of distance covered underwater, especially distance covered beyond the light, which is crucial.

My first dive, after passing my open-water tests and getting my 'Scuba Diver' certification-card, was a guided cavern dive in Ginnie Springs, Florida. The drowned caves of west-central Florida are very much like the cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula -- formed by underground rivers that occasionally break out to the surface as 'sinkholes' (Yanqui) or 'cenotes' (Mexicano). A "cavern dive" means a dive that never goes far-back enough that you lose sight of the light at the opening of the cavern, so you can always see your way back to the surface -- unless you kick up enough bottom-silt to obscure that view. A vital part of learning cavern-diving -- and wreck-diving -- is learning to kick so you DON'T stir up the silt; another vital lesson is how to run a "wayback line," which you can follow back to the opening you entered at the start of the dive.

Cave-diving -- going 'beyond the light' -- is a far-riskier sort of diving, because if you get lost and you run out of air, 'Cancel Christmas!' It is a "technical diving" specialty that requires rigorous training and exacting preparation, before you pass this sign....

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[Hunter]

scary 3rd person died same hotel....WTF

https://nypost.com/2019/06/05/domini...atory-failure/

[greydread]

scary 3rd person died same hotel....WTF

https://nypost.com/2019/06/05/domini...atory-failure/

I'm wondering if it could be Legionnaires' Disease...

[CentralNJDude]

Diving in a cenote? A couple of MILES? Dear Lord ... I can't even....

They had mini caves along the way where we surfaced. Wasnt that bad, kind of combo of snokerling in diving gear.

[Westy]

They had mini caves along the way where we surfaced. Wasnt that bad, kind of combo of snokerling in diving gear.

That's better. I guess you could stay in sight of the light, that way. But it's a hell of a place to learn you've got claustrophobia.

[ezsmile]

Was that in the Xcaret tourist park?

[Jimmydr]

scary 3rd person died same hotel....WTF

https://nypost.com/2019/06/05/domini...atory-failure/

That is scary.