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From: Search for missing diver resumes - The Irish Times - Tue, Sep 06, 2011
A search resumed today for a Polish diver who went missing yesterday while exploring a cave near Gort, Co Galway.
The man, who is in his 30s, entered the Pollonora cave at 3pm yesterday but failed to emerge as expected at 9.30pm.
The Irish Coast Guard described the man as very experienced and said he had enough oxygen to last six hours.
A friend of the man and another experienced diver conducted a search of the cave last night for two hours but found nothing. The missing man was diving alone but the alarm was raised by two colleagues waiting for him on the surface.
The cave is thought to be 52 metres deep and extensively flooded.
Connor McGrath of the Irish Cave Rescue Organisation said only very experienced divers can operate at such depths. From our point of view this is very difficult, he said. As time is passing, we are more and more concerned.