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So far this eason, we have had about 15 fatalities, at least two of them involving rebreathers, and a couple of missing divers being 'found' again up to a year after they went missing!

Not a good season by any standards :(
 
What's the "found" story?
 
Knavey:
What's the "found" story?

Here is the news story...

Body of diver found close to Anglesey wreck
The body of a diver, still wearing a cylinder, was discovered by wreck divers close to a 40m wreck site off North Wales on Saturday 24 April.


The dive group informed the coastguard, and police divers recovered the headless remains from the site off Point Lynas, Anglesey. The deceased is believed to be Richard Hartley, who went missing while diving the WW1 wreck Cambank in July 2003, though a formal indentification has not been confirmed.

The body was recovered to Moelfre Lifeboat Station on Anglesey. North Wales police confirmed that the body had been in the water for some considerable time. Relatives of the deceased have been contacted.


And the origional one, when this poor sould went missing...
Diver lost off Anglesey
Coastguard resumed their search this morning for a 34-year-old man who went missing after a dive on WW1 merchant steamer Cambank at 4pm on Thursday 17 July.

Richard Hartley was diving as part of a group of seven from dive boat Endeavour when he became separated from the group. He is described as a capable and well-equipped diver.

The wreck, in 35-40m, is just three miles off the coast of north Anglesey, Wales. Holyhead Coastguard coordinated a six hour search with an RAF helicopter from Valley until visibility failed with fog and reduced light making the search impossible.

Efforts resumed the morning, with police divers and divers from the original dive group carrying out a search on the wreck. Nobody saw the missing diver surface, and with the helicopter standing down from the search, his body is now believed to have been lost on the wreck.
 
DivingDaisy:
Nobody saw the missing diver surface, and with the helicopter standing down from the search, his body is now believed to have been lost on the wreck.

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't quite see why police divers weren't dispatched shortly after the incident.
Surely his family must have wanted a search done, so that the body could be given a proper burial?
 
SmokingMirror:
Forgive my ignorance, but I don't quite see why police divers weren't dispatched shortly after the incident.
Surely his family must have wanted a search done, so that the body could be given a proper burial?

I would have thought so too, perhaps they felt they weas little chance of finding him alive. The police divers did go in next day, but found nothing, looking at the two reports - they assumed he was in the wreck, when in actual fact he wasn't - so they might well have been searching the wrong area.
 
Police divers have i think its a 30m depth limit.

Are you sure its only 15 so far this year? Ive seen figures elsewhere stating 18
 
i notice the first team did not retrieve the body but called the authorities.

is this the proper precedure if one happens upon a body?

obviously if the person had a chance for survival (slim in this situation being without a head) you would get the person to the surface.

do the the rescue divers do any sort of on-the-site forensics?

dt
 
[is this the proper precedure if one happens upon a body?]

Some people may not be able to deal with a head less guy. Or know how to.
I am glad for his family that they have closure.
Derek
 
dtdiver:
....snip....

is this the proper precedure if one happens upon a body?

If you're not 100% sure that he's dead then treat it like a rescue.

If you're 100% sure then it's best to mark it and assume that the police will view it as a potential crime scene.

R..
 

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