Missing Diver in Rutlant, Vt Quarry
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Rescue crews recover missing scuba diver
By The Associated Press
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) -- Rescue crews on Monday recovered the body of a missing scuba diver.
Tim Gagnon, 43, of Northwood, N.H. was reported missing Sunday morning at a West Rutland quarry.
Gagnon was diving with another man when the other diver had trouble and came to the surface. Gagnon never appeared.
Police and rescue crews searched the quarry Saturday and Sunday and recovered the body Monday afternoon.
Both men were experienced divers, police said.
The case remains under investigation and an autopsy was ordered, police said.
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My prayers go out to his friends and family.
LIT
By The Associated Press
RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) -- Rescue crews on Monday recovered the body of a missing scuba diver.
Tim Gagnon, 43, of Northwood, N.H. was reported missing Sunday morning at a West Rutland quarry.
Gagnon was diving with another man when the other diver had trouble and came to the surface. Gagnon never appeared.
Police and rescue crews searched the quarry Saturday and Sunday and recovered the body Monday afternoon.
Both men were experienced divers, police said.
The case remains under investigation and an autopsy was ordered, police said.
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My prayers go out to his friends and family.
LIT
The body of a 43-year-old father of four was found late yesterday afternoon after two days of searching a quarry for the missing diver.
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Timothy Gagnon, an experienced scuba diver, was diving with a friend in West Rutland on Sunday morning when the friend had difficulty with his breathing equipment, said Gagnon's wife, Joanne, in a telephone interview from her home in Northwood, N.H., last night.
Gagnon and his friend were doing ''buddy breathing" -- sharing air from the same regulator, said Joanne Gagnon. At one point, Gagnon's friend, whom she would identify only as John, was shallow enough to surface on his own. The friend waited on the surface; Gagnon never appeared, his wife said.
''They believe he was trying to fix the problem when it happened," said Joanne Gagnon. ''This was an accident. He was helping his friend. They had been diving for a long time together."
Gagnon was reported missing Sunday morning. He was found late yesterday afternoon about 400 feet from his point of entry into the quarry, according to Vermont State Police.
A rescue team from the Colchester Fire Department recovered his body.
''At this time it is being considered an accidental death," said State Police dispatcher Tom Best.
The case remains under investigation and an autopsy was ordered, police said.
Gagnon's wife of 24 years said her husband had been diving for decades and was very comfortable in the water.
''He's a great, great guy," she said. ''He was perfect."
this was the artical in the Boston Globe for today.
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Timothy Gagnon, an experienced scuba diver, was diving with a friend in West Rutland on Sunday morning when the friend had difficulty with his breathing equipment, said Gagnon's wife, Joanne, in a telephone interview from her home in Northwood, N.H., last night.
Gagnon and his friend were doing ''buddy breathing" -- sharing air from the same regulator, said Joanne Gagnon. At one point, Gagnon's friend, whom she would identify only as John, was shallow enough to surface on his own. The friend waited on the surface; Gagnon never appeared, his wife said.
''They believe he was trying to fix the problem when it happened," said Joanne Gagnon. ''This was an accident. He was helping his friend. They had been diving for a long time together."
Gagnon was reported missing Sunday morning. He was found late yesterday afternoon about 400 feet from his point of entry into the quarry, according to Vermont State Police.
A rescue team from the Colchester Fire Department recovered his body.
''At this time it is being considered an accidental death," said State Police dispatcher Tom Best.
The case remains under investigation and an autopsy was ordered, police said.
Gagnon's wife of 24 years said her husband had been diving for decades and was very comfortable in the water.
''He's a great, great guy," she said. ''He was perfect."
this was the artical in the Boston Globe for today.
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