Search for missing diver - Cape Reinga, New Zealand

[DandyDon]

Missing Diver, Cape Reinga | Scoop News

Police have today been searching for a diver who was reported missing just before 3pm today.

The man was diving near the Three Kings when he failed to surface.

Police search and rescue staff with RCCNZ staff were searching for the 67-year-old since he was reported missing.

The search will resume tomorrow morning.

Police ask that anyone in the area at the time with any information contact Police on 105 quoting file number P045647745.

 

[DandyDon]

It's nice when they are rescued alive after a search even tho he was stuck on rocks overnight. Excerpting from One diver dies in Northland, second diver found alive 18 hours after going missing

In the second incident, a man was reported missing about 3pm Saturday after failing to surface near Manawatāwhi/ Three Kings Islands, about 55km northwest of Cape Reinga.

An “extensive” search and rescue operation was launched.

The diver was located on rocks by the crew of a charter vessel about 9.15am Sunday, more than 18 hours after going missing.

He was transferred to a second vessel and returned to Whangaroa, police said.

A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion took part in the search, along with a Northland Emergency Services Trust rescue helicopter.

Police said they wanted to acknowledge Charter Operators and Far North Radio, who “used experience and vessel communications to successfully locate the diver”.

Far North Radio president and volunteer radio operator Annette Hall said she received a call on Saturday saying that the diver was late.

“From there I went straight to our on-duty search and rescue police officer. He had things underway very quickly,” she said.

The man’s son had been on the boat with him when he failed to return, she said. That boat returned to Whangaroa on Sunday morning.

Soon after, Hall received a call from the police, saying the man had been found.

“Then I got a call from the boat that had him on board, saying ‘This man is so lucky. We’ve just landed a striped marlin’.

“Everything that had happened since yesterday had just melted. The skipper said he was leaping around the boat.”

Far North Radio has been operating since 1947 and is run by volunteers.

 

[clownfishsydney]

Don you need to update the other post too.