An investigation has been opened to determine the circumstances of the tragedy. Two people in their sixties drowned on Wednesday during an outing to a former quarry in
Haute-Vienne , a well-known site
converted into a diving center , we learned this Thursday from the gendarmerie.
According to the newspaper
La Nouvelle République , the victims, a "seasoned" diver who had been registered with a club for 30 years and a new enthusiast, who had been licensed for a year and held a level 1 diver's certificate, were members of the Montmorillon diving club, a town in the neighbouring department of Vienne, around forty kilometres from the site.
Firefighter training site
The duo was part of a two-group outing from the Aquarillon club in Montmorillon, in the water on Wednesday in the old Montulat quarry, located 40 km north of
Limoges . Very popular with divers in the region, the site also serves as a training ground for firefighters.
"The water was not cold, they were trained, the equipment was good, they knew the site, it's incomprehensible," a source close to the case told an AFP correspondent.
When contacted, the mayor of Montmorillon and the club did not wish to comment immediately.
