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11/04/2002
Search suspended after divers suffer injuries
The search of a sunken fishing boat for the bodies of three generations of the Greene family lost off the County Down coast has been suspended after a police diver was taken to hospital suffering from the bends.
The diver was treated in a decompression chamber at hospital in Craigavon, County Armagh but has subsequently been released and is doing well a police source has reported.
The head of the Police Service Underwater Search Unit, Sergeant Elvin Leech, volunteered to go into the chamber with his colleague.
The injured officer was taken to hospital suffering from pains in his arms late on Wednesday night after diving on the wreck in more than 140 feet of water seven miles away from Kilkeel port.
Another member of the team was injured earlier in the search, suffering from a ruptured eardrum.
The Tullaghmurray Lass went down off the coast of County Down on Valentine’s Day and the wreckage was only discovered two weeks ago after a lengthy search.
Police divers who have been down to the wreck are certain at least some members of the Greene family, father, son and grandson, are still in the prawn vessel.
In the last few days various parts of the wreck have been brought to the surface as the divers work their way towards where they hope to find bodies. (AMcE)
The diver was treated in a decompression chamber at hospital in Craigavon, County Armagh but has subsequently been released and is doing well a police source has reported.
The head of the Police Service Underwater Search Unit, Sergeant Elvin Leech, volunteered to go into the chamber with his colleague.
The injured officer was taken to hospital suffering from pains in his arms late on Wednesday night after diving on the wreck in more than 140 feet of water seven miles away from Kilkeel port.
Another member of the team was injured earlier in the search, suffering from a ruptured eardrum.
The Tullaghmurray Lass went down off the coast of County Down on Valentine’s Day and the wreckage was only discovered two weeks ago after a lengthy search.
Police divers who have been down to the wreck are certain at least some members of the Greene family, father, son and grandson, are still in the prawn vessel.
In the last few days various parts of the wreck have been brought to the surface as the divers work their way towards where they hope to find bodies. (AMcE)
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