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07h00 (Sunday, 05 January) NSRI Simons Town are continuing to assist Police at Smitswinkel Bay where a diver remains missing. A dive search, coordinated by Police divers and including Police, Fire and Rescue, Navy and WC Government Health EMS divers, is ongoing. This morning, Sunday, 05 January, NSRI Simons Town sea rescue craft joined the dive teams on the scene above the ROCKEATER wreck where the emergency dive teams are continuing the dive search. It has been confirmed that the missing 50 year old Cape Town man was recreational diving (open circuit diving normal scuba diving, and not using re-breather diving apparatus as previously reported by NSRI) at the time and is suspected to have remained at the wreck after being separated by his dive buddies during a dive on the wreck. Upon surfacing 3 divers from the group, on learning the status of the missing man, returned to the wreck to search. Thoughts are with the family and friends of the missing man.
ORIGINAL RELEASE:
At 11h47, Saturday, 4th January, NSRI Simons Town responded to Smitswinkel Bay, Cape Point, on the False Bay side, on the border of Cape Point, where a dive group reported one of their divers missing during what was a 34 meter dive, with scuba dive gear, on the Rock Eater wreck at Smitswinkel Bay. A surface sea search by NSRI Simons Town, the Skymed helicopter, Police and Emergency Services, to rule out any possibility that the 50 year old, Cape Town diver, had drifted away on the sea surface has revealed no sign of the missing diver. The surface sea search continued while Police divers, WC Government Health EMS divers and Navy divers prepared to begin a dive search. The dive search is now under way and is being coordinated by Police divers. According to reports the divers, that the missing man was diving with, had dived on a second dive after they had surfaced and found their dive mate missing, but after not finding the man, during the second dive, they surfaced and raised the alarm. The divers involved were taken to the Simons Town Naval Base medical quarters to be checked for possible decompression illness and they remain under medical observation. Police have opened an investigation and a dive search is continuing.
---------- Post added January 5th, 2014 at 08:08 AM ----------
Will update with more news as it comes available. Very sad days here in the Cape... perhaps there is still hope for this diver in the Cape of Good Hope.
07h00 (Sunday, 05 January) NSRI Simons Town are continuing to assist Police at Smitswinkel Bay where a diver remains missing. A dive search, coordinated by Police divers and including Police, Fire and Rescue, Navy and WC Government Health EMS divers, is ongoing. This morning, Sunday, 05 January, NSRI Simons Town sea rescue craft joined the dive teams on the scene above the ROCKEATER wreck where the emergency dive teams are continuing the dive search. It has been confirmed that the missing 50 year old Cape Town man was recreational diving (open circuit diving normal scuba diving, and not using re-breather diving apparatus as previously reported by NSRI) at the time and is suspected to have remained at the wreck after being separated by his dive buddies during a dive on the wreck. Upon surfacing 3 divers from the group, on learning the status of the missing man, returned to the wreck to search. Thoughts are with the family and friends of the missing man.
ORIGINAL RELEASE:
At 11h47, Saturday, 4th January, NSRI Simons Town responded to Smitswinkel Bay, Cape Point, on the False Bay side, on the border of Cape Point, where a dive group reported one of their divers missing during what was a 34 meter dive, with scuba dive gear, on the Rock Eater wreck at Smitswinkel Bay. A surface sea search by NSRI Simons Town, the Skymed helicopter, Police and Emergency Services, to rule out any possibility that the 50 year old, Cape Town diver, had drifted away on the sea surface has revealed no sign of the missing diver. The surface sea search continued while Police divers, WC Government Health EMS divers and Navy divers prepared to begin a dive search. The dive search is now under way and is being coordinated by Police divers. According to reports the divers, that the missing man was diving with, had dived on a second dive after they had surfaced and found their dive mate missing, but after not finding the man, during the second dive, they surfaced and raised the alarm. The divers involved were taken to the Simons Town Naval Base medical quarters to be checked for possible decompression illness and they remain under medical observation. Police have opened an investigation and a dive search is continuing.
---------- Post added January 5th, 2014 at 08:08 AM ----------
Will update with more news as it comes available. Very sad days here in the Cape... perhaps there is still hope for this diver in the Cape of Good Hope.
