Executive Director Environmentalist Dies in Swimming Accident at Mexican beach -Linked to another similar incident?!

Rebecca Tarbotton
The executive director of the California-based environmentalist group Rainforest Action Network has died in a swimming accident at a beach near Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta.

Spokesman Adan Leyva said Friday that paramedics tried to revive her after she was brought ashore, but she was dead by the time she reached the hospital.





[link to www.washingtonpost.com]


This instantly reminded me of...


A diver from New Mexico who died in a Thanksgiving Day boating accident was a manager at one of the nation's leading research laboratories who was in Florida for a holiday dive trip with her nephew, authorities said Friday.

Nina Poppelsdorf was a senior manager of the radiation protection, industrial hygiene and safety center at Sandia National Laboratories,

[link to news.yahoo.com]


I have bolded some areas of interest...



Also... what does the two have in common other wise?

Rebecca Tarbotton worked for the Rainforest Action Network

This is a fukishima thumbs down article

[link to understory.ran.org]


Nina Poppelsdorf

Poppelsdorf was a leader of a Sandia team that helped in the response to the crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami left several reactors there without cooling water, Fong said.



Me thinks they died in the name of Fukishima



what did they find out?

Last Edited by Dr. Acula on 12/29/2012 12:00 AM