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| Scapa Flow: Search for missing divers to resume on Thursday | Scapa Flow: Search for missing divers to resume on Thursday |
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| A specialist police dive team is to try to locate two Dutch men missing in Orkney after a dive in Scapa Flow. | |
| An extensive air and sea search was launched on Tuesday afternoon when the men - understood to be in their 60s - failed to return to a local boat. | An extensive air and sea search was launched on Tuesday afternoon when the men - understood to be in their 60s - failed to return to a local boat. |
| Despite near perfect conditions, no trace of the men was found. The operation was suspended at 20:00. | Despite near perfect conditions, no trace of the men was found. The operation was suspended at 20:00. |
| Police said a dive team was being sent to Orkney, with efforts to locate the men to get under way on Thursday. | Police said a dive team was being sent to Orkney, with efforts to locate the men to get under way on Thursday. |
| Any hopes of finding the men alive were said to have faded. | Any hopes of finding the men alive were said to have faded. |
| A police spokesperson said: "Further efforts to locate them will be made. | A police spokesperson said: "Further efforts to locate them will be made. |
| "The missing divers have not yet been located and there are serious concerns for their wellbeing." | "The missing divers have not yet been located and there are serious concerns for their wellbeing." |
| Deteriorating condition | Deteriorating condition |
| The Stromness lifeboat and Sumburgh-based coastguard search and rescue helicopter had been involved in Tuesday's operation. | The Stromness lifeboat and Sumburgh-based coastguard search and rescue helicopter had been involved in Tuesday's operation. |
| The pair had been diving on the sunken German warship SMS Brummer, which is lying in 36m of water. | |
| Scapa Flow is a popular destination for visiting divers with the wrecks of the German Fleet which was scuttled in its sheltered waters in 1919. | Scapa Flow is a popular destination for visiting divers with the wrecks of the German Fleet which was scuttled in its sheltered waters in 1919. |
| The Brummer is not considered to be one of the more technically difficult dives in the area, but the deteriorating condition of all of the wrecks can make them dangerous. | The Brummer is not considered to be one of the more technically difficult dives in the area, but the deteriorating condition of all of the wrecks can make them dangerous. |