Overview
- Prosecutors in Chubut formally charged instructor Thiago Nahuel Pocovi with homicidio culposo, a provisional criminal classification for deaths linked to negligence.
- The court action took place in a hearing led by Judge Marcela Pérez Bogado that opened the investigation preparatoria and recorded Pocovi's virtual participation from Buenos Aires.
- Investigators say the diver, 23-year-old Sofía Devries, removed her regulator while on the sea floor and later died from asphyxia by submersion, with her body found after a Prefectura Naval search.
- The fiscal reconstruction says visibility was extremely poor and the dive continued despite that condition, and prosecutors will test whether safety protocols were breached through technical peritajes and witness statements.
- If forensic reports and testimonies support the prosecutors' case the file could be formalized into an accusation and sent to trial, while the current charge remains provisional pending those results.