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Major search launched in Channel as diver reported missing off Hastings
19:26, 27 July 2024
updated: 14:52, 28 July 2024
A major search operation is underway in the English Channel as a diver has been reported missing.
The Coastguard helicopter from Lydd and Dungeness RNLI's all-weather lifeboat have been called in to help off Hastings in East Sussex.
The alert was raised at 1.25pm, and the helicopter is currently circling over a vessel thought to be linked to the dive a few miles off Hastings.
A spokeswoman for HM Coastguard said: "A search for a missing diver, involving the RNLI, a Coastguard helicopter and a Coastguard fixed wing aircraft, as well as vessels in the area, is currently ongoing off Hastings."
The search was later called off after nothing was found.
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