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Missing Scotland wreck diver's body found

 

Lucinda Cameron
Friday 11 May 2012 04:01 EDT
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The body of a diver who went missing while exploring a wreck has been recovered.

John Skerry, 54, became separated from a group while diving at the wreck Breda in Ardmucknish Bay near Oban, Argyll and Bute, on Tuesday.

His friends raised the alarm when he failed to surface.

A search was launched and his body was recovered by Strathclyde Police divers shortly before noon yesterday.

Mr Skerry was from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire.

His relatives have been informed and a report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.

The Breda was a Dutch steamer which sank after being attacked by a German plane in 1942.

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