2 divers go missing off Crown Point | Trinidad Express Newspaper | News
Still no bodies found as of 4/18
By Elizabeth Williams Tobago Bureau
Story Created: Apr 14, 2011 at 12:48 AM ECT
(Story Updated: Apr 14, 2011 at 12:48 AM ECT )
THE search is still on for two men who went missing during a diving expedition on Tuesday.
Police said Delano Benjamin, 33, of Canaan, and Learmond Chapman, 39, of Bon Accord, were reported missing shortly after 1 p.m. after they disappeared while diving behind the Crown Point International Airport. Yesterday, Christiana Chapman, sister of Learmond, said her brother was a stubborn man.
"I was told they were diving and when they came up to offload the set of lobsters the current was real strong, yet he decided to return to the waters," Chapman said.
Chapman thanked the Coast Guard for their efforts in attempting to find the men.
Two Coast Guard patrol vessels were out at sea looking for the two men on Tuesday and from around 7 a.m. straight into the afternoon. Public Relations Officer for the T&T Coast Guard, Lieutenant Kirk Jean-Baptiste, said the men had not been found up to last evening.
Glenda Benjamin, mother of Delano, said she wanted to tell her son not to go to sea on Tuesday, but decided not too since he is a determined young man and nothing could change him easily.
"I didn't sleep whole night last night, everybody there crying. Early, from this morning 5 a.m., they come out again and bawling down the place. He is the fifth of my five children. He said he was returning from sea around noon on Tuesday, but when I checked it was discovered he was missing," Benjamin said.
Crown Point police and Coast Guard officials are continuing investigations.
Still no bodies found as of 4/18
By Elizabeth Williams Tobago Bureau
Story Created: Apr 14, 2011 at 12:48 AM ECT
(Story Updated: Apr 14, 2011 at 12:48 AM ECT )
THE search is still on for two men who went missing during a diving expedition on Tuesday.
Police said Delano Benjamin, 33, of Canaan, and Learmond Chapman, 39, of Bon Accord, were reported missing shortly after 1 p.m. after they disappeared while diving behind the Crown Point International Airport. Yesterday, Christiana Chapman, sister of Learmond, said her brother was a stubborn man.
"I was told they were diving and when they came up to offload the set of lobsters the current was real strong, yet he decided to return to the waters," Chapman said.
Chapman thanked the Coast Guard for their efforts in attempting to find the men.
Two Coast Guard patrol vessels were out at sea looking for the two men on Tuesday and from around 7 a.m. straight into the afternoon. Public Relations Officer for the T&T Coast Guard, Lieutenant Kirk Jean-Baptiste, said the men had not been found up to last evening.
Glenda Benjamin, mother of Delano, said she wanted to tell her son not to go to sea on Tuesday, but decided not too since he is a determined young man and nothing could change him easily.
"I didn't sleep whole night last night, everybody there crying. Early, from this morning 5 a.m., they come out again and bawling down the place. He is the fifth of my five children. He said he was returning from sea around noon on Tuesday, but when I checked it was discovered he was missing," Benjamin said.
Crown Point police and Coast Guard officials are continuing investigations.
