A British father-of-two has been left quadriplegic after snapping his spine in a freak accident as he dived into the sea while on holiday in Ibiza.
David Hayes, 37, spent almost three weeks in a coma following the 'incomprehensible' accident on July 11 and is permanently paralysed from the chest down.
The father, from Torquay, Devon, had arranged the family holiday after his wife Elly, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She is currently undergoing radiotherapy.
Mr Hayes inhaled salt water, which led to pneumonia and a collapsed lung, while in the sea and relied on a ventilator to breathe in the hours after the accident.
He broke his vertebrae in his neck and damaged sections of his spinal cord before undergoing surgery, receiving a titanium and artificial bone cylinder to stabilise his neck, in a Spanish hospital.
