Diver missing, search stopped
08/01/2005 14:50  - (SA)  

Body raised after 10 years Body of diver found 10 years on Diver's remains found

Boesmansgat - One of the divers in the operation to recover the body of Deon Dreyer in Boesmansgat has gone missing and the operation has been called off.

Dave Shaw, who dived to 270m to attempt the body recovery did not meet his partner Don Shirley at his first stop of 220m on Saturday morning as planned.

Police Superintendent Ernst Strydom, commander of the operation, said no plans were underway to search for Shaw in such dangerous conditions.

Meanwhile, Shirley - who is the dive's technical co-ordinator - was suffering from decompression illness and was due to return to the surface at 6pm on Saturday.

Early on Saturday afternoon Shirley was slowly returning to the surface.

News of his condition came from others in the team of eight divers who had been underwater.

The dive started at 6.15am on Saturday.

Dreyer blacked out and drowned in the cave, the third deepest freshwater cave in the world, while diving there in 1994. He was 20 years old.

 

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