Divers found AT 2018 on July 25, 1987 Falmouth Coastguard MRCC received a report of an overdue dinghy with four people on board - two men, a woman and child - and alerted Falmouth's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Sole Bay, which diverted from an exercise to join a SAR helicopter from RNAS Culdrose in the search.

As a result of a radar report from a local fishing vessel, the dinghy was located at 2142. The two men, both divers, had separated from the dinghy, which had drifted with the woman and child on board.

Sole Bay, with Helmsman Royston Prynn and Crew Members Dave Nicholland Andrew Angove on board, returned the two casualties to the shore and Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat Elizabeth Ann, under the command of Coxswain Vivian Pentecost, launched to join the search, assisted by a second SAR helicopter.

The first diver was found by the lifeboat at 2311, six hours after he first entered the water and the second man was located half an hour later, through the lifeboat crew's diligent searching and keeping engine noise to a minimum..