{"id":57356,"date":"2001-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/970d1053-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"970d1066-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/970d1066-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving mishap sends tourist to ICU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Japanese tourist fell prey to a freak diving accident at the Laolao Bay last week.<\/p>\n<p>Tsutomo Ogura, 59, belitted at the Coral Ocean Point almost drowned after he reportedly lost control of his paddling fins during his second dive, witnesses told police.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers already found the victim floating on water, unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>Two other divers at the scene attempted to resuscitate Mr. Ogura back to consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>He was immediately transported to the Commonwealth Health Center and was admitted to the ICU for further observation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ogura is only one of many casualties of water sports-related mishaps on Saipan waters since January of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after local hero Galileo Torwal&#8217;s death last Jan. 21, another Japanese tourist Akihisa Takeda, 44, also drowned at the Grotto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Japanese tourist fell prey to a freak diving accident at the Laolao Bay last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}