SUBIC BAY, Philippines (12 Aug 2005) -- One diver drowned, one was arrested and three others are missing after they were busted looting a shipwreck in Subic Bay. Maritime officials told CDNN a Philippines patrol vessel spotted the looters before dawn on Thursday. They were diving off a small boat at the site where the USS New York sank in 1941. American forces scuttled the vessel in 1941 to prevent invading Japanese from capturing it. | | When the patrol vessel approached the divers, one jumped into the water and was critically injured attempting to escape. He later died on the way to a local hospital. A second diver was arrested at the scene and officials are searching for three other divers who were also looting the wreck. © CDNN - CYBER DIVER NEWS NETWORK |
