One dead, one missing - Gullmarsfjorden, Sweden

[DandyDon]

Dykare saknas i Gullmarsfjorden

Två dykare försvann i Gullmarsfjorden strax före klockan 15 på söndagen. En av personerna konstaterades senare avliden. Det rör sig om en dansk medborgare i 55-årsåldern och anhöriga ska ha underrättats, enligt polisen. Den andra dykaren saknades fortfarande efter många timmars sökande. – Vi har...

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Western SwedenTwo divers disappeared in Gullmarsfjorden just before 3 pm on Sunday. One of the people was later found dead. This is a Danish citizen in his 55s and relatives must have been notified, according to the police. The other diver was still missing after many hours of searching.
- We have also initiated a preliminary investigation into causing another person's death, says Magnus Schildt, duty officer at the police.

Three people were out diving in Gullmarsfjorden on Sunday, but only one came out of the water. It was the person who alerted the rescue service and a large rescue operation was started. By 4 pm, one of the two missing divers had been found.

- The person was found at the surface in a critical condition and has been taken to hospital, said Lina Buurstra, at the Swedish Maritime Administration's sea and air rescue center during the operation.

90 meters deep at the site​

The search for the second diver, which began at 3 p.m., continued for several hours. The Swedish Maritime Administration's national sea and air rescue center (JRCC) initially led the operation but with the support of the rescue service and the coast guard.

- There are both rescue services, coast guard and medical care on site. So we are now looking for both divers in the water, by boats and by helicopter from the air, said Lina Toresson, rescue leader at JRCC at 4 p.m.

According to JRCC, it should be up to 90 meters deep in the water where one diver was found.

The police take over the search​

Shortly after 6 pm, the Swedish Maritime Administration's Maritime and Air Rescue Center completed the search, which then entered a new phase.

- We end the sea rescue operation and the application is transferred to the police, said Christel Englund, assistant rescue leader at JRCC.

At 7.15 pm, the police announced that they were still at the scene with a patrol.

- There is still one person missing. Our patrol on site is now compiling all the information from the rescue service and the sea rescue and then deciding how we will continue the work, said Magnus Schildt, officer on duty at the police.

Preliminary investigation is initiated into causing another person's death​

At 20.30, the police announced that the recovered diver had died.

- The person who was taken to hospital, he is now found dead and relatives must be notified, says Magnus Schildt.

The police have initiated a preliminary investigation into causing another person's death.

- There is no one who is notified of suspicion, but this is a measure so that we can seize the deceased's equipment so that we can investigate it.

According to the police, the relatives of the deceased must be notified. This is a Danish citizen in his 55s. The missing man and the third diver who sounded the alarm are both Swedish citizens. The missing diver is in his 50s.

 

[jborg]

Police concluded the investigation here (found no fault) and released a few details, though not much and it seems only in verbal form to Swedish radio.

Två dog i djupet: Det låg bakom dykolyckan på Västkusten - P4 Väst

En söndag i juli förra året beger sig tre erfarna dykare ut i Gullmarsfjorden.På 40 meters djup uppstår ett tumult och en av dykarna som vill gå upp rycker ...

sverigesradio.se

Summary from my understanding:

- Three divers were doing a dive to 90m.
- The dive was thumbed by one of the divers, and they headed up to a 40m stop (it's unclear to me if this was a planned end of the dive or a sudden thumbing).
- At the 40m stop, some sort of issue occurs with the diver who thumbed the dive (equipment malfunction is the guess, though this couldn't be established), who then grabs/wrestles a bailout cylinder from a second diver, and heads for the surface.
- The diver who lost his bailout appears to lose control of his buoyancy and follows the first diver towards the surface.
- The third diver completes about an hour of deco, then surfaces and raises the alarm.

Only diver number three survived. All of them were apparently experienced technical divers. The rebreathers of the two deceased divers were flooded/destroyed when recovered and didn't provide any hints about what had happened.