Diver Dave Shaw–Body Recovered: When South African police went to recover all the gear Dave Shaw had used to try to retrieve the body of Deon Dreyer from the depths of Boesmansgat, they got a surprise. Two bodies came with it. And along with the bodies came clues to how Dave Shaw had died:

Police spokesperson Ernst Strydom said on Wednesday night that the bodies had been brought to the surface shortly after 17:00.

“Police divers, assisted by technical divers, started recovering the ropes and other equipment from the water this morning when they saw Dave Shaw and Deon Dreyer’s bodies at the cliff beneath the water.”

Strydom said the divers were about 20 to 25m deep when they saw the bodies.

There is a possibility that the bodies floated up when the divers pulled up the ropes used during the fatal dive.

Strydom said it appeared that Shaw’s equipment got entangled with Dreyer’s diving gear.

Strydom said the gear from both bodies were tangled together when they surfaced.

“The ropes and equipment got entangled in one coincidental loop.”

Tests will also no doubt be run on Shaw’s rebreathing apparatus to see whether it packed up on him while he was 270 meters down, trying to cut Dreyer’s body free. Most experts had doubted the bodies would be recovered, and while Shaw–who loved diving and Boesmansgat–might have been happy to rest there at the bottom for eternity, the recovery of the two divers is a blessing for the families Shaw and Dreyer left behind…



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