Post by Taylor on Sept 11, 2006 15:10:20 GMT -5
Missing Belgian diver found after six day search
Monday, September 11, 2006
Guardia Civil divers have finally recovered the body of Marc Goyen, a Belgian diver who went missing on the 22nd August, in a submerged cave near the port of L'Estartit (Girona).
After six days of intensive effort, the diver was found this morning floating on the ceiling of a hidden chamber of the main cave that has a very narrow entrance, which explains how it had been previously overlooked.
It was necessary to attach a 35kg lead weight to the badly decomposed body to bring it down to a level where it could be hauled through the chamber's extremely narrow aperture, but the body was finally brought to the surface shortly before 1pm this afternoon, and has now been taken for forensic examination in L'Estartit.
www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/11816
Monday, September 11, 2006
Guardia Civil divers have finally recovered the body of Marc Goyen, a Belgian diver who went missing on the 22nd August, in a submerged cave near the port of L'Estartit (Girona).
After six days of intensive effort, the diver was found this morning floating on the ceiling of a hidden chamber of the main cave that has a very narrow entrance, which explains how it had been previously overlooked.
It was necessary to attach a 35kg lead weight to the badly decomposed body to bring it down to a level where it could be hauled through the chamber's extremely narrow aperture, but the body was finally brought to the surface shortly before 1pm this afternoon, and has now been taken for forensic examination in L'Estartit.
www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/11816