30-07-2025
Brit tourist, 23, is left in intensive care in Ibiza after smashing his head in hotel pool plunge
A British holidaymaker has been rushed to a hospital intensive care unit with skull and spinal injuries after smashing his head on the bottom of his Ibiza hotel pool.
The 23-year-old is 'very serious' after undergoing an emergency operation following the incident yesterday afternoon.
The hotel in Ibiza where it happened has not yet been named.
Hospital sources said they understood he had hurt himself after falling or diving head-first into the pool, although the exact circumstances are still being investigated.
One unconfirmed local report said he was under the effects of drugs when he got up from his sun lounger and 'deliberately' threw himself head-first against the ground.
He remained today in intensive care at the private Nuestra Senora del Rosario Polyclinic where a 25-year-old British tourist died on July 14 from injuries he had sustained a day earlier in a fall from a supermarket car park in the party resort of San Antonio.
A hospital spokesman said: 'Yesterday afternoon, a 23-year-old British man was injured after diving headfirst into a swimming pool at a hotel in the town of San Antonio.
'We do not have detailed information about the exact circumstances surrounding the accident.
'The young man was taken to the Nuestra Senora del Rosario Polyclinic, where he underwent surgery by the neurosurgery team. He is currently in the Intensive Care Unit.
'The medical diagnosis includes a cervical spinal cord injury, head trauma and a fracture of the sixth vertebra.'
Two Scottish tourists died in falls from the Ibiza Rocks Hotel in the same resort earlier this month.
Dundee-born ice hockey star Gary Kelly, 19, died instantly in a third-floor fall at the hotel on July 21.
On July 7, Evan Thomson, 26, from Aberdeen, fell and died at the same hotel.
