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<h2>Daredevil freediver, 29, swept out to sea and drowned just days before birth of his first child</h2><ul style=”font-weight: bold;”>
- <font style=”font-size:1.4em;”>Yevgeniy ‘Eugene’ Glebov had been Freediving Fins for ten years and was due to quit sport in a few days</font>
- <font style=”font-size:1.4em;”>He had been hunting giant bass without an air tank and was found dead in his diving gear by a crew aboard a tugboat</font>
- <font style=”font-size:1.4em;”>Two weeks earlier he rescued a girl who had got stuck in a fishing net<br /></font>
<p class=”author-section byline-plain”>By Daily Mail Reporter </p> <p class=”byline-section”><span class=”article-timestamp article-timestamp-published”> <span class=”article-timestamp-label”>Published:</span> <time datetime=”2012-09-19T14:21:58+0100″> 14:21 BST, 19 September 2012 </time> </span> | <span class=”article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated”> <span class=”article-timestamp-label”>Updated:</span> <time datetime=”2012-09-20T09:21:23+0100″> 09:21 BST, 20 September 2012 </time> </span> </p><p> </p><div data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=”” id=”articleIconLinksContainer”>
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<span></span> <p class=”count-number”> 6</p> <p class=”count-text”>View <br /> comments</p> </div> <!– ad: website –> <p></p> <p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>A freediver with ten years’ experience has drowned just days before he was planning to quit the sport after his wife gave birth to their first child.<br /></font></p><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>The body of Yevgeniy ‘Eugene’ Glebov, Freediving Fins from Staten Island, was discovered yesterday, four days after he was swept out to sea.</font></p><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>Mr Glebov had embarked on a spear-hunting dive in the rough waters off the Rockaways area of New York and had been hunting giant bass without an air tank.</font></p><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>He was found dead in his diving gear by a crew aboard a tugboat.</font><br /></p><div class=”clear”> </div><div class=”artSplitter”> <noscript> </noscript> <p class=”imageCaption”>Police officers stand over the body of freediver Yevgeniy ‘Eugene’ Glebov, from Staten Island, who was discovered yesterday, four days after he was swept out to sea</p><div class=”clear”> </div><div class=”artSplitter”> <noscript> </noscript> <p class=”imageCaption”>Mr Glebov’s wife is due to give birth to their first child in just days</p> </div> </div><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>The 29-year-old Brighton Beach lifeguard who had planned to stop diving after the pending birth of his daughter, was still wearing his fins, wetsuit and depth gauge when his body was spotted close to Beach 217th Street about three miles from where he had disappeared on Friday.</font></p><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>Aunt Sonya Kordonsky told the</font> </span><span style=”font-weight: bold;”>New York Post</span></font><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”><span style=”font-weight: bold;”></span></font><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>: ‘His wife is having a baby in two weeks.
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</div></div> <p><font style=”font-size:1.2em;”>Mr Glebov’s cousin, Anna Andreyeva, 24, added, ‘The baby will be named after him: Eugenia. He was excited to be a father. He wanted to drop his passion for a new passion.'</font></p><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>The diver was a seasoned participant in the pastime and spent every summer’s day exploring deep waters, without the use of any breathing apparatus.</font></p><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>He was supposed to meet a friend on Friday to dive for striped bass, but seemingly went in alone.
By 3pm, the friend reported him missing.</font><br /></p><div class=”clear”> </div><div class=”artSplitter”> <noscript> </noscript> <p class=”imageCaption”>Mr Glebov had embarked on a spear-hunting dive in the rough waters off the Rockaways area of New York and had been hunting giant bass without an air tank</p> </div><div class=”clear”> </div><div class=”artSplitter”> <noscript> </noscript> <p class=”imageCaption”>The experienced diver may have died from a condition called shallow- water blackout triggered by a lack of carbon dioxide combined with a drop in oxygen levels</p> </div><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>Authorities said there were no obvious signs of trauma on his body and yesterday family members including Mr Glebov’s mother Valentina, Freediving Fins 54, and his father Valeriy, 65, hugged and cried on a pier in Riis Park, close to the New York Police Department’s harbour boat.</font><br /></p><div class=”clear”> </div><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>Valeriy Glebov said: ‘Two weeks ago, he rescued a girl .
. . stuck in a fishing net. We were hoping for a miracle. We were really hoping he would be found alive.'</font></p><p><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>Former NYPD scuba instructor </font><font style=”font-size:1.2em;”>Bill Reddan </font><font style=”font-size: 1.2em;”>said Glebov may have died from a condition called shallow- water blackout triggered by a lack of carbon dioxide combined with a drop in oxygen levels which usually happens about five feet below the surface.<br /></font></p><p><font style=”font-size:1.2em;”>However Mr Reddan also speculated that the diver may have become tangled up in some sort of netting and thought lack of visibility may have been a factor.</font></p><p></p> <div class=”clear”> </div></div>
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