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I really cannot copy the news story. Try google translation at this link: Estadounidense desaparece mientras buceaba en Roatán
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On Saturday, the National Police of Honduras reported the disappearance of a U.S. citizen, who had gone scuba diving Friday morning among the reefs of Roatan, Bay Islands.
It was 7:00am when William Wayne Perkins (57), a scuba instructor from Colorado (United States) left to go diving in the West End of the island in Honduras’s Caribbean waters. However, friends and family of the U.S. man reported that they had not heard from him since.
Perkins lives in the West End neighborhood of Roatan.
After receiving the report of his disappearance, units from the Police Bureau of Investigations and the Navy mobilized for a search.
The manager of Roatan Dive Center (NB: link added by me), a dive shop that rents equipment, indicated that William Wayne Perkins had left carrying tanks of oxygen that would only last for two hours.
She added that the American had not entered the water from a dive boat, but that he had gone in from a dock that scuba divers use to enter the Caribbean waters to dive on the reefs in that area.
In addition to the Police Bureau of Investigations and the Navy, firefighters from the island are also participating in the search. However, search activities have become difficult due to bad weather and strong wave action in the northern region of Honduras, which has been affected by a cold front that arrived on Friday.
For these reasons, the search has been paused until the weather improves.
Correct. He had been on the island for years now, a resident of West End - but his US home was more Texas than Colorado.One article said he lived on the island with his wife.