TIDENHAM, Gloucestershire, UK (11 Apr 2004) -- Two scuba divers were missing, feared drowned, yesterday after failing to resurface from a flooded limestone quarry. Police fear that the man, aged 25, and the woman, aged 27, both experienced divers, became trapped in an underwater tunnel. Staff at the National Diving Centre in Tidenham, Gloucestershire, became worried about the qualified divers, both from Berkshire, when they did not re-appear on Friday evening. Employees noticed the pair's Red Ford Mondeo was still parked in the grounds after the centre closed at 5.30pm. | | A search of the 80m-deep man-made lake was launched but stopped when it became dark. Teams of police divers and a police helicopter were searching the Dayhouse Quarry yesterday in the hunt for the man, from Ascot, and the woman, from Sunningdale. The pair's families travelled to Gloucestershire yesterday to help police establish what may have happened. A spokesman for Gloucestershire Police said the pair had arrived at the centre at 9.30am on Good Friday but they were not sure what time they went missing. SOURCE - The Independent |
