The body of the French Navy clearance diver missing after training on Friday in the harbor of Brest was found on Saturday.
It is the second-mate Adam Tahri, 28, assigned to the group of clearance divers in the Atlantic, said the Chief of Staff of the Navy.
I pay tribute to SM Adam TAHRI missing at sea today in Brest.
He was assigned to the Atlantic Clearance Diver Group.
My heartfelt thoughts and those of the Navy are with his family and his comrades.
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- Chief of the Naval Staff (@amiralVandier) September 17, 2021
His colleagues had alerted the emergency services on Friday shortly after 1 p.m. that Adam Tahri, one of them had not come to the surface after a dive.
An important device had been deployed without success to try to locate the missing diver, then indicated the maritime prefecture.
The Lorient gendarmerie brigade was seized of the investigation by the Brest prosecutor in order to determine the precise circumstances of this disappearance.
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.
