PETERBOROUGH, UK (1 Aug 2006) -- Lynne Pembroke has been missing at sea for a year. There is little doubt that she died doing what she loved best – deep sea diving. It is small consolation for her husband, John, whose agonising wait goes on and on. He says not a day goes by when he does not say a little prayer that his beloved wife's body may be found, so he can finally say goodbye properly. John (51) said the endless wait was heartbreaking. He said: "I know in my heart that Lynne is dead. But with no body and no death certificate it is hard to accept. She is the last thing I think of before I go to sleep, and my first thought in the morning." Lynne (49) disappeared during a diving trip off the coast of Swanage, last August. She had been exploring the Kyarra wreck, a World War One passenger and cargo liner that sank off the coast of Dorset after being hit by a German torpedo. On the second day of the dive, Lynne plunged down 29 metres into the sea. She never came back up again. A huge sea and air rescue involving local fishermen, the RNLI, a coastal helicopter and the Navy failed to find her. It is believed that the day before she died there had been a strong current which may have forced Lynne to surface too quickly and caused the bends. The bends is where external pressure on the body decreases as the diver returns to the surface. When she went diving again, it may have caused Lynne to suffer a brain aneurysm. On December 12, four moths after her disappearance, a memorial service was held in Pontfadog, in Wales, where Lynne's family live. Lynne (49) gained her first taste of diving while working as a chef in the RAF in Gibraltar in the 1970s just five years before she met Mr Pembroke when they were stationed together at RAF Brampton, near Huntingdon. In 1984, the pair were married and settled into their life together at their new home in Eastrea Road, Whittlesey, before Mrs Pembroke took on a job as a chef at Orton Longueville School, Peterborough, where she worked until her disappearance. | | John and Lynne Pembroke Mr Pembroke, a former aerial photographer for the RAF, said: "Lynne always wanted to have another stab at diving, so, for her 42nd birthday, I booked her some courses at Gildenburgh Water Diving School, near Whittlesey, and bought her the equipment she needed. "Pretty soon, it was a full-blown hobby for her, and it was at about this time I got into wildlife photography to keep myself occupied, because whenever we went on holiday, you could guarantee she would be diving for at least a couple of days." Today, as he approaches the first anniversary of his wife's disappearance on Friday, Mr Pembroke says the only way he found he could cope was to throw himself into his new-found hobby of wildlife photography. He now spends most weekends with his camera, taking pictures of birds, hedgehogs and insects, both in his garden and in the Fens. He is a voluntary photographer for bird sanctuary The Raptor Foundation Centre in St Ives, and also exhibits work at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Welney, near Wisbech. He said: "Lynne wouldn't want me to wallow in my own misery, as I wouldn't her if it was the other way around. "Photography is one of my ways of coping. When I'm taking pictures, my mind is focused on the subject, and nothing else. "We all have our own ways of getting through events like these. "Everyone is different, no way is right or wrong, and I want people to understand that." Mr Pembroke will travel down to the pier at Swanage on Friday for the first anniversary of Lynne's disappearance. SOURCE - Peterborough TodaySCUBA FORUMDISCUSS THIS TOPIC - Dive in and have your say at Scuba Forum |
