Five days of searches by up to 11 vessels and several helicopters, including naval craft and volunteering dive boats, were followed by an extra day of surface searches co-ordinated by the Red Sea Association for Diving and Water Activities. Operations were hampered by rough, windy weather
Egypt's Daily News named the missing divers as Vladimir Bukhmiller, Sergei Gurba and Natalia Doronina. Diving from the liveaboard Tiger Lily, they were reported to have been attempting a hazardously deep descent on air.
'They were trying to dive to 90m. We know this because a fourth diver who was with them refused to go,' a Russian consulate spokesman was reported to have said. Under Egyptian law, dives on air should not exceed a depth of 40m, due to the increased risk of an oxygen toxicity hit and resultant seizure.
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