Dover, Kent -At 6.5 p.m. on 4th June, 1967, it was reported that three skindivers who had been taken to the Varne bank, accompanied by three dinghies, had come to the surface and were drifting eastwards.

The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings in a south westerly breeze and a smooth sea. It was three and a half hours before high water. The life-boat found that the three divers had been picked up by a passing steamer and had been transferred to the Dungeness life-boat. On the way back to her station with two of the skin divers' dinghies in tow the life-boat was hailed by the yacht Taurus which needed assistance as her engines had broken down. The Taurus, with five people on board, and the two dinghies were towed into Dover harbour and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.37..