Man, 47, Dies After Family Breath-Holding Contest in Rural São Paulo as Police Open Suspicious-Death Probe

Overview

• Augusto Flávio Vargas de Oliveira, known as Guga, drowned during an underwater endurance game with relatives at a private home in Pedro de Toledo’s Fazenda São José.
• Family members found him by the pool and performed chest compressions until the Samu team reached the remote site about 10 minutes later.
• Responders treated a cardiorespiratory arrest from drowning, deployed an automated external defibrillator, and transported him for roughly 40 minutes of further care without success.
• The Civil Police called in forensic experts and recorded the case as a suspicious death at the Peruíbe precinct, with the investigation ongoing.
• The 47-year-old, a grassroots football club president in Praia Grande, was buried in his hometown on Feb. 17 as relatives shared accounts that he felt unwell after surfacing and then failed to resurface after another dive.