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.”

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