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A Chinese Person Bought Cheap Chinese Diving Equipment Online! It Tested Fine in the Bathtub, but After Going Into the Sea, It Never Came Back.

A 58-year-old Chinese man in New Zealand bought a Chinese-made submersible air pump online. It worked fine in the bathtub, but he drowned the next day after going diving. According to the New Zealand Herald, on March 5, 2023, Shengwei Cao, a Chinese resident of Lower Hutt, New Zealand, drowned while diving near Mana Island, north of Wellington. He was using a Wolach 919 surface breathing apparatus. Now, after a three-year investigation, the New …
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A 58-year-old Chinese man in New Zealand bought a Chinese-made submersible air pump online. It worked fine in the bathtub, but he drowned the next day after going diving. According to the New Zealand Herald, on March 5, 2023, Shengwei Cao, a Chinese resident of Lower Hutt, New Zealand, drowned while diving near Mana Island, north of Wellington. He was using a Wolach 919 surface breathing apparatus. Now, after a three-year investigation, the New …

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阿波罗新闻网 broke the news on Tuesday, September 15, 2026.
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