French Navy trainee missing - Brest

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Disappearance of a Navy clearance diver during training - Archyde

A demining diver from the French Navy is missing after training on Friday, September 17 in the harbor of Brest, announced the Maritime Prefecture of the Atlantic.

The Corsen Regional Operational Surveillance and Rescue Center (CROSS) was alerted shortly after 1:00 p.m. by a team of clearance divers from the Atlantic Clearance Diver Group (GPD-A) that one of them had not come to the surface after a dive. An important device was deployed without success to try to locate the missing diver, indicates the maritime prefecture.

“At 9:00 pm, the rescue operations by directed means were suspended for lack of new information. Nevertheless, research is continuing with resources from the French Navy and the maritime gendarmerie ”, she specifies. The Lorient gendarmerie brigade was seized of the investigation by the Brest prosecutor in order to determine the precise circumstances of this disappearance.

Navy clearance divers are a body of the French Navy, attached to the Naval Action Force, specializing in explosive device neutralization missions, underwater work, underwater research, and operations. amphibians or assault stripping as part of maritime counterterrorism. The Navy has three groups of clearance divers (GPD) since 1955 in Cherbourg, Brest and Toulon, armed by nearly 300 sailors.

 

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Brest : le plongeur-démineur disparu vendredi a été retrouvé mort
Google translation...
Brest: the clearance diver disappeared Friday was found dead
The 27-year-old man had disappeared during training in the harbor of Brest.

Adam Tahri's body was found around 7 p.m. on Saturday September 18 after more than 30 hours of searches, reports France Bleu Breizh Izel . This 27-year-old demining diver had disappeared on Friday during training in the harbor of Brest.

A mine hunter, equipped with hull sonar, had been deployed to try to find him. His colleagues from the group of mine clearance divers also took part in the rescue operations. But the hope of finding him alive was "very slim" , according to the Atlantic Maritime Prefecture. This kind of drama remains very rare. This is the fifth time this has happened in France in 30 years, according to France Bleu Breizh Izel.

"We are very marked," said the Navy to France Bleu Breizh Izel, who believes that finding the body was a "duty" , for the family of the diver-deminer but also for his colleagues, with whom he had been working since the last summer.