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This is a quick translation from Politiken (Danish newspaper) online yesterday:
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Substantial search after missing Danish divers
Four Danish divers and a Canadian instructor are missing in the sea at Zanzibar. The Danish ambassador says that a found life vest could be a good sign.
A frantic search is still going on after the four Danes and their Canadian diving instructor, which disappeared during the weekend while diving at Zanzibar by the coast of Tanzania.
The recovery of a life vest could be a good sign, according to Carsten Nilaus Pedersen, the Danish ambassador in Tanzania.
The water is very warm and the recovered life vest is of a type the diver has to take off himself. It could be a sign that at least one of them have landed on one of the small islands or on the main island Pemba, says Carsten Nilaus Pedersen to Ritzau.
Beneficial Currents
He adds that helicopters and ships at the moment are searching the surface but that also the coastal areas on the island are being searched both inhabited and uninhabited islands.
Whatever happened to them then theyll drift ashore somewhere and the currents are such that they wont drift into the Indian Ocean, says Carsten Nilaus Pedersen.
According to the Danish embassy the four missing Danes were part of a group of eight, witch were distributed into two groups of three and five, respectively. Both groups were accompanied by a diving instructor and everything went according to plan.
It wasnt a case of a missing boat after they surfaced. In the contranary an alarm was struck when they failed to appear at the agreed upon meting place. The first impression is that the company that arranged the diving trips had everything under control says the ambassador.
He mentions that the divers might have be swept away from the meeting place by an under water current and that the water is so warm that one can survive several days without too big problems.
Danish pressure
The ambassador wont guess how long the search will continue. The Kenyan and Tanzania nave are participating in the search.
But he stresses that the Danish embassy in Dar-Es-Salaam will continue to put pressure on the local authorities until the missing divers are found.
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I susspect that the "life vest" is a BCD?
Other surces disagree wether they disappeared Friday or Saturday afternoon.
I just hope the are doing a Robinson Crusoe on one of those islands.
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Substantial search after missing Danish divers
Four Danish divers and a Canadian instructor are missing in the sea at Zanzibar. The Danish ambassador says that a found life vest could be a good sign.
A frantic search is still going on after the four Danes and their Canadian diving instructor, which disappeared during the weekend while diving at Zanzibar by the coast of Tanzania.
The recovery of a life vest could be a good sign, according to Carsten Nilaus Pedersen, the Danish ambassador in Tanzania.
The water is very warm and the recovered life vest is of a type the diver has to take off himself. It could be a sign that at least one of them have landed on one of the small islands or on the main island Pemba, says Carsten Nilaus Pedersen to Ritzau.
Beneficial Currents
He adds that helicopters and ships at the moment are searching the surface but that also the coastal areas on the island are being searched both inhabited and uninhabited islands.
Whatever happened to them then theyll drift ashore somewhere and the currents are such that they wont drift into the Indian Ocean, says Carsten Nilaus Pedersen.
According to the Danish embassy the four missing Danes were part of a group of eight, witch were distributed into two groups of three and five, respectively. Both groups were accompanied by a diving instructor and everything went according to plan.
It wasnt a case of a missing boat after they surfaced. In the contranary an alarm was struck when they failed to appear at the agreed upon meting place. The first impression is that the company that arranged the diving trips had everything under control says the ambassador.
He mentions that the divers might have be swept away from the meeting place by an under water current and that the water is so warm that one can survive several days without too big problems.
Danish pressure
The ambassador wont guess how long the search will continue. The Kenyan and Tanzania nave are participating in the search.
But he stresses that the Danish embassy in Dar-Es-Salaam will continue to put pressure on the local authorities until the missing divers are found.
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I susspect that the "life vest" is a BCD?
Other surces disagree wether they disappeared Friday or Saturday afternoon.
I just hope the are doing a Robinson Crusoe on one of those islands.
