Incident off Oban?
Rik
Anyone know about an incident off Oban yesterday? I only heard this
second hand and didn't see anything in todays papers, but it was
reported that a diver was missing and another chambered after being
caught in an undercurrent, just hope the missing diver was found ok.
Rik
jamie.bassett
An instructor and two trainees were diving in the Sound of Kerrera nr Oban
when they were forced down to 140ft, presumably by a strong downcurrent.
The instructor and one trainee made it to the surface, the other trainee was
found by local divers a short time later. The two survivors were suffering
dc o sickness.
Rik wrote in message <199911211...@zetnet.co.uk>...
Mike Souter
Mike Souter
jamie.bassett
diving with.
Mike Souter wrote in message ...
Stevie Imlach
From what we gather they were diving the Breda which is in Ardmucknish Bay
not the Kerrera Sound.
Reports in the Sunday mail suggested they were dragged down by currents,
however the wreck and the area is totally sheltered and not tidal let alone
strong enough to pin somebody down.
17 years old!
Such a waste!
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jamie.bassett wrote in message <38390...@news1.vip.uk.com>...
Mark Williams
Girl drowns in diving accident
By Matt Born
A 17-YEAR-OLD girl has drowned while being taught to dive off Scotland.
Julia Brandrith, of North Shields, Tyne and Wear, who would have been 18
tomorrow, died on Saturday while deep-water diving with a school friend and
an instructor in the Sound of Kerrara, near Oban, Argyllshire.
The three are believed to have got into trouble soon after entering the
water at low tide. They had just begun their training session on an
underwater cliff, at a depth of 88ft, when the tide began to rise, creating
a strong current which dragged the divers down.
Despite the instructor's efforts to bring all three to the surface, he was
unable to save Miss Brandrith. Oban coastguard was alerted and her body was
found in the water by an RAF helicopter crew. She was pronounced dead at the
scene.
Miss Brandrith attended King's School, Tynemouth, North Tyneside, where she
was studying for her A-levels. She had won a place at Edinburgh University.
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Stevie Imlach <ste...@fastted.nospam.in2home.co.uk> wrote in message
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Geoff Ballinger
diver open water training.
Mark Williams wrote:
> The three are believed to have got into trouble soon after entering the
> water at low tide. They had just begun their training session on an
> underwater cliff, at a depth of 88ft, when the tide began to rise, creating
> a strong current which dragged the divers down.
We ran into some surprisingly nasty - and sudden - currents around
Maiden Island on the Sunday afternoon. Fortunately nobody had any
serious problems though one pair did end up surfacing quite a distance
off after being caught in it.
Fortunately we had two boats on site and do all OW training at that
level 1:1.
> Miss Brandrith attended King's School, Tynemouth, North Tyneside, where she
> was studying for her A-levels. She had won a place at Edinburgh University.
That is a particularly upsetting one. She would have been joining us
next year :-<!
> Stevie Imlach <ste...@fastted.nospam.in2home.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:81babd$sj1$1...@phys-ma.sol.co.uk...
> > Our club were in Oban all this weekend.
> >
> > From what we gather they were diving the Breda which is in Ardmucknish Bay
> > not the Kerrera Sound.
We were at Ganavan all that day and there was definitely no helicopter
activity towards the Breda though there was quite a lot to the south
towards Oban and Kerrera,
Geoff.
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Stevie Imlach
hovering @ 10 ft off the water scanning the area. Wasn't till later that we
heard what was going on but I spoke to some divers later that night and they
said that they had been out towards the Breda that morning and that was
where it happened.
All media reports appear to show otherwise now though.
Stevie
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Geoff Ballinger wrote in message <383960D4...@edesign.co.uk>...
Richard Newbold
from "jamie.bassett" <jamie....@tinyonline.co.uk> contains these words:
> The victim was from Tyne & Wear, but no mention of the school/club she was
> diving with.
> Mike Souter wrote in message ...
> >Any idea where they were from...? ie which school..?
> >
> >Mike Souter
The Sunday Times reported that the party were from Deep Blue Dive
Centre, Tynemouth.
Rik
Paul Heywood
Paul Reeves
Paul
> The Maritime Agency website has a detailed report.
>
To save a load of us having to search - do you have their website
address?
Paul Reeves
Paul Heywood
http://porch.ccta.gov.uk/coi/coipress.nsf
then Maritime & Coastguard Agency
then 20/11/99 "Oban Coastguard alerted to three divers in distress"
Regards
Paul
"Paul Reeves" <paul....@virgin.net> wrote in message
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"Paul Reeves" <paul....@virgin.net> wrote:
>
> Paul
>
> > The Maritime Agency website has a detailed report.
> >
> To save a load of us having to search - do you have their website
> address?
>
> Paul Reeves
>
>
http://www.mcagency.org.uk/news/439-99.htm
Neil
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