Abstract
Suffocation deaths may be due to mechanical obstruction of the airways such as smothering and choking, restriction of respiration from traumatic and positional asphyxia, or from a lack of environmental oxygen. The latter may be due to entrapment in a nearly or completely air-tight container, or from consumption or replacement of the environmental oxygen by other means. Enclosed spaces onboard marine vessels are potential workplace hazards due to consumption of oxygen from rusting of the walls. Autopsy findings are typically non-specific.
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