Couple lost on Belgian-French coast

[DandyDon]

Unknown translation of article...

Large-scale search operation for two missing scuba divers, on the Belgian-French coast | NEWS WIRE FAX

the French-Belgian coast and has a great search looking for a two of recreational scuba diving. The duo is from 14.00 o’clock is missing. Several reddingsschepen and a helicopter have been deployed.

The two divers, a man and a woman, who appeared to be a wreck, and left Sunday afternoon with a boat to go to France in order to go scuba diving. They went into the water at the level of the Sea, about 12 to 15 miles from the coast. Since 14.00 the both of them went missing. There was a huge rescue operation was set up.

“it started in the French waters, but, according to the search – and-driftmodellen of the coast guard, it is likely that both of them had drifted off to the Belgian waters,” said Eva Descamps, of the Maritime Rescue and coordination centre (MRCC) in Ostend, belgium. That is why it is also in the Belgian marine areas is sought.

There was a NH-90 helicopter is used, as well as several reddingsschepen of the FLEET and Ship Support services. Around 18.45 o’clock, two of the divers from the defence, with the assistance of six recreational divers, who are spontaneous and have logged in, you are still on the search for the missing persons.

“Last attempt”

Initially, it was announced that the search was discontinued, it would be at sunset, but it is a bit more sought after. The boats, stop the search, but the helicopter will be in the area until midnight looking with the infrared camera. “We want to make one last attempt to find them”, says the Maritime Rescue and Coordination centre (MRCC).

at The wreckage, it would be very popular with recreational scuba divers. There have been Sunday afternoon, several lifeboats and a helicopter is used. She scoured the water looking for the missing hobbyduikers. It took about 18 hours, even with a special diving site with a dive.

 

[HDP]

Herewith a translation of an article from a Belgian Newspaper with link to the original article.

"The search for two divers who have been missing since this afternoon was stopped around midnight after the helicopter searched the area until midnight with an infrared camera. "We wanted to make one last attempt to find them," it sounds at Maritime Rescue and Coordination Center (MRCC).

The two went into the water on Sunday afternoon near Nieuwpoort, about 12 to 15 kilometres from the coast. It concerns two Flemish recreational divers, a man and a woman. Together with a few other people on board, they went looking for a shipwreck that had just arrived in French waters. When the man and woman remained underwater too long, the other crew members immediately raised the alarm at the MRCC.

"Immediately afterwards we drew up a search box to find out where they could be," says Eva Descamps. Because of the current, the divers will probably drift towards Belgian waters, as a result of which the rescue centre in Ostend coordinated the search. Army divers went around 18 hours with some sport divers to look even further around the shipwreck where the missing divers might have been. However, that did not produce any results.

Last attempt
"There was talk of stopping the action around 8.30 pm, but it was decided to make one final attempt to find them," said Eva Descamps of the MRCC on Sunday evening. Because the divers were diving close to the French border for a wreck, the MRCC of Cap Gris-Nez in northern France was also informed. The search was stopped around midnight. Today a decision will be made on how to continue."

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[DandyDon]

I wear my PLB dive canister hooked to a D-ring on my BC, after attaching a bolt snap with a key ring. It's slightly buoyant, which is good in case I fumble retrieving it on the surface, but I never notice it on dives. I'd have to be on the surface to use Beacon, and I'd be embarrassed if I had to, but I'd hate to make it that far only to find myself lost & drifting. For an excessively long discussion, see: PLBs Can Save Your Life

 

[HDP]

Update
The same newspaper posted later that the search activities were stopped.

Always sad to visit this part of the board.

 

[Rollin]

Plb's can save your life, but if the searching teams do not find you in that area, it is very likely you didn't make it to the surface.

 

[xmass-Eve]

Nobody knows if they actually came back up. The wrecks in the Channel are not for the less experienced because of bad vis and currents. We werent allowed to go until we had a CMAS3* level. Apparently, the wean did not have lots of experience so I guess something else went wrong and the husband tried to save her so they both died

 

[DandyDon]

It seems that they were found, one inside the wreck and the other nearby...

the body of a Belgian diver found almost a year after her disappearance

Posted on Friday August 14, 2020 at 2:39 p.m.

The body of the diver was found on Wednesday by other Belgians in Dunkirk.

On September 15, 2019, a couple of Belgian divers disappeared 15 kilometers off Dunkirk. With their team, they left Nieuport to explore a wreck lying 35 meters deep, at the limit of Belgian and French territorial waters, and never came to the surface.

This Wednesday, as part of a leisure outing, the Belgians decided to dive on this wreck. They found the body of a woman trapped in the structure. Obviously, it would be the missing diver, writes The voice of the North.

As for his companion, he would also have been seen at the bottom of the wreckage during the leisure trip on Wednesday, but without certainty.