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Not a diving accident as such but divers taking a boat to the dive at Nusa Lembongan - news report here
Although another report indicates that the divers may have dived with 4 surfacing but the other 8 caught in a current.
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Seems that this one has had a positive result - Indonesian news reports now indicating that all 8 missing divers have been retrieved alive and well by a fishing trawler.
Although another report indicates that the divers may have dived with 4 surfacing but the other 8 caught in a current.
Denpasar.Eight tourists from Germany and Britain went missing on Thursday while taking a boat to Nusa Lembongan Island, southeast of Bali, to go diving amid rough seas.
M. Hernanto, the head of the Bali search and rescue agency, said the tourists were from a group of 12 who left for the island on board a rented boat in the afternoon.
After contact with the vessel was lost, a search team was sent out to the area. Officials only managed to find four members of the group, all foreigners, Hernanto said.
The search will continue on Friday for those missing, he added.
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Seems that this one has had a positive result - Indonesian news reports now indicating that all 8 missing divers have been retrieved alive and well by a fishing trawler.
DENPASAR: The National SAR Agency reported eight foreign tourists from Germany and France are missing while diving in the waters of Nusa Lembongan, Klungkung, Bali, has been saved.
Krishna, PR Staff Basarnas Denpasar, explaining the eight foreign divers were rescued by a fishing boat KM Resources, 11 miles south of the initial location of the dive,
"Hendro [Staff Dive Concept] previously reported missing are reported back that at 22:40 pm eight tourists had been rescued," he told Business on Friday (6/7).
At 4:00 pm, said Krishna, the eighth foreign tourist was evacuated to the port of Benoa.
Their condition when found in good health and has now returned to their hotel, where they stay.
"Having been found and their condition is fine, then our search plan was canceled," he said.
Earlier on Friday morning, Basarnas London reported seven French tourists and a German tourist missing while diving in the waters of Nusa Lembongan, Klungkung, Bali, Thursday (5/7). (Fire)