According to police, the initial examinations of four of the seven victims who perished when a superyacht sank in a storm in Italy last month were the result of dry drowning, Cape {town} Etc reports.
According to CNN , the syndrome, often called atypical drowning, implies there was no water in their lungs, tracheas, or stomachs, according to a representative for the captains counsel.
The Bayesian went down off the coast of the Sicilian port of Porticello on August 19.
There is no medically approved dry drowning condition; dry drowning or other phrases such as secondary drowning or delayed drowning are occasionally used to describe individuals whose condition worsened after a drowning rescue or who had very little water in their lungs.
However, the American Red Cross and other health organisations have advised against using the terminology; people may experience health effects after being in water, but this is not the same as drowning, they argue.
