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Missing scuba diver found safe - inside police cell

Sep 15, 2011, 12:30 GMT

Johannesburg - South African rescuers went into high alert on Wednesday night, after receiving reports that a scuba diver had not returned from his last venture out into the ocean.

As emergency responders went to work, a thorough officer placed a call to the man's family.

Instead of having to relate bad news, the officer learned that the missing diver was safe and well, just held up in a police detention centre.

'Fortunately the mother of the missing man informed us that her son had just called her and that he was locked up in the cells of a police station,' National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon told the SAPA news agency.

The man was arrested for allegedly diving in a protected marine reserve without a permit.

The search was subsequently called off.



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