HURGHADA, Egypt — A British national who joined a BSAC dive club trip to the Red Sea remains missing after a week and is presumed dead. Alan Costello, 52, of Moss Bank, St. Helens, disappeared on May 20 while exploring the Rosalie Moller shipwreck near Hurghada with an experienced Egyptian dive guide and three other members of BSAC's Northern Union dive club, based in St. Helens in the UK. Witnesses said that after the divers entered the engine room, Costello and his buddy apparently lost contact with the other divers, became disoriented and mistakenly moved deeper into the wreck. Struggling to work their way through narrow passages and find a way out of the wreck before their air supplies ran out, the divers kicked up sediment reducing visibility to zero. Costello's buddy continued moving through the darkness until he finally saw a soft blue light indicating open water ahead. He exited the wreck near the funnel and ascended to the surface utilizing a reserve air supply contained in a small "pony bottle". At the surface, the buddy diver raised the alarm and authorities launched an air and sea search for the missing diver. Divers assisted by searching the wreck but found no trace of Costello. On Saturday, May 24, four days after Costello disappeared, his fellow divers in the BSAC Northern Union Red Sea holiday group left Hurghada and returned to the UK. Egyptian officials and the Foreign Office declined to say if the search has been called off but admitted the search and rescue mission has become a recovery effort. Meanwhile, Costello's family and friends in the UK are pleading for help such as plans of the wreck at several online chatrooms that attract scuba divers. | 
