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The sea in front of Jungmun Beach in Jungmun-dong, Seogwipo-si, around 4:25 pm on the 22nd. An employee of a tourist boat caught his eye with a red rescue signal buoy floating in the sea . It was what was called ‘diving sausage’ (SMB, Surface Marker Buoys).
Intuitive as a rescue signal, the employee drove a boat and approached the buoy, and three drifting divers waited for help.
These divers were dramatically rescued three hours after their disappearance, 6 km from the disappearance.
If the sea was adrift for more than 3 hours with the strong east wind and the tide of more than 10 meters per second, and the rescue was delayed, they were in a situation where their lives were in danger, such as drifting to the distant sea.
The experienced divers, A (47), B (28) and C (female, 37) moved from the sea 300 m north of Beomseom Seogwipo, a diving attraction, to the sea, and jumped into the sea around 12 o’clock.
They surfaced in less than an hour. However, the entry point and the exit point were different. The captain of the fishing boat, who was supposed to meet at the meeting point and pick them up, couldn’t find them.
The captain of the fishing vessel felt strange and reported the disappearance to shore around 1:14 pm.
The Seogwipo Coast Guard, which received the report, sent a rescue boat to the crash site and mobilized a helicopter to search, but could not find the three divers who dove.
At the same time, the Seogwipo Coast Guard asked the civilian rescue team from Pacific Resom, a private water recreation company, to cooperate in the search.
Civilian rescue teams found a rescue signal buoy around 4:25 pm while searching the accident area. The orange rescue signal buoy, also known as ‘diving sausage’, is an elongated rescue signaling tool with a length of approximately 1m. A device that marks the current position of the diver in the water, blows air and makes it float on the surface.
Fortunately, they were equipped with safety tools and set out to rescue. Three rescued divers complained of hypothermia at the time of rescue, but it is known that there is no harm in life.
The Seogwipo Coast Guard estimated that these divers were carried away by the strong winds.
