LEAVE YOUR DETAILS WITH A SHORE CONTACT BEFORE SETTING TO SEA
Humber Coastguard is reminding shore divers to leave details
of where they are going and when they expect to return with a shore contact
following a search for some divers earlier this afternoon.
The Coastguard received a call from a concerned member of
the public who had seen two shore divers go into the sea in thick fog west of
Sheringham but who had not seen them return. Cromer and Sheringham Coastguard
Rescue Teams were sent to investigate and the Sheringham RNLI lifeboat was
requested to launch.
A short while later the two divers came out of the sea and
reported back to the coastguard that they were fine but that they had seen
another three divers go into the sea and that they had not returned. One of
these three also returned a short while later but reported that the other two
were out at sea and that he did not know where they were. The lifeboat began a
search for the remaining two divers, but they too eventually arrived back on
shore safe and well.
Graham Dawson, Humber Coastguard says:
“If you are going diving please remember to tell a shore
contact where you are going and when you expect to be back. That way, they can
contact the Coastguard if you do not return on time. Today, with weather
conditions as they were, it would have been helpful if the divers had contacted
us at Humber Coastguard prior to their dive to let us know where they were
going and when they were expecting to come in.”