Thirty hours of search later, the body of Adam Tahri, diver-deminer of the French Navy, was found.
Saturday, September 18, around 7 pm, his comrades from the group of Atlantic clearance divers recovered the 27-year-old second-mate, who had been missing since the day before during a
"qualification maintenance exercise"
in the harbor of Brest. .
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Significant resources have been deployed, including a mine hunter equipped with sonar;
clearance divers from his group also joined in the search operations.
Saturday, the prefecture had already estimated that the chances of finding him alive were "
very slim
".
According to France Bleu Breizh Izel, this type of drama is rare: it is the fifth such disappearance in thirty years.
Described as a sailor whose "
professionalism, alertness and irreproachable military demeanor
[had]
often been underlined
", Petty Officer Tahri had been deployed in the Middle East and Overseas.
Navy clearance divers are a body of the French Navy, attached to the Naval Action Force, specializing in explosive device neutralization missions, underwater work, underwater research, and operations. amphibians or assault stripping as part of maritime counterterrorism. The Navy has three groups of clearance divers (GPD) since 1955 in Cherbourg, Brest and Toulon, armed by nearly 300 sailors.