Monday, April 7, 2008

Search for missing diver in scapa flow

Search for missing diver in scapa flow

LONDON. April 5, 2008/3mnewswire.org/-- Shetland Coastguard is coordinating a search for a missing diver from a wreck site in Scapa Flow.

Shetland Coastguard was contacted at 10.50am by the dive boat Karen, reporting that a diver had not surfaced after a dive on the 40 metre depth Markgraf wreck site in Scapa Flow. Two divers had been diving when one of them got into difficulty and only one of the divers resurfaced.


Shetland Coastguard scrambled the Coastguard Rescue Helicopter and requested the launch of Stromness and Longhope RNLI lifeboats. Coastguard Rescue Teams from Stromness and Hoy have joined the search.

The missing male diver is from Northampton.

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