Longhope’s Tamar class lifeboat Helen Comrie was called on 11 August to help search for a missing diver after his support vessel reported him overdue.

The lifeboat’s Deputy Second Coxswain took command of the dive boat while her skipper went to look for the diver underwater. Both boats carried out a systematic search for about an hour before the missing man’s body was found trapped inside the wreck he had been exploring. The lifeboat crew brought the body ashore to his wife.