Feb 19, 2014 Maan Pamintuan-Lamorena
One of the Japanese scuba divers who went missing in the waters in Bali, Indonesia described how the weather went bad while they were diving and that the sea spun “like a washing machine.” Saori Furukawa was among the five divers rescued last Monday.
She recounted how the weather was “serene” when the group took off from Nusa Lembongan towards the diving site. “At the start of our diving there were no problems in terms of weather and sea conditions,” she described. In fact, there were “almost no waves,” and it came as a surprise when suddenly they were caught in the middle of a storm. Furukawa detailed the ordeal, saying, ‘The surface of the sea started to spin like a washing machine and all of us spun around together, hand in hand.” It was only because the five of them held onto rocks and coral reefs that they survived. Rescuers saw them drifting and Furukawa said that it was around three days already that they were clambering onto the rocks to survive.
The other divers were found in a different area, around 20 kilometers where they set off. But Furukawa, who tried to swim after a tugboat to be saved, were found in a different location than the other four. “The current was running in the opposite direction from the current where the rest of the members stayed, so I was swept further away from them,” she recounted. Rescuers have already found the body of one member of the group, but the search for the diving instructor, Shoko Takahashi, who owns the Yellow Scuba diving company in Indonesia, is still ongoing. Takahashi’s husband, Putu Mahardena Sembah, already joined the search operations determined to find his wife, but police are starting to lose hope they’ll find her alive. Other rescue officials have expanded the area of the search to include the nearby island of Lombok. The rescued divers are now recuperating in a hospital in Bali, but no one was reported seriously injured.
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One of the Japanese scuba divers who went missing in the waters in Bali, Indonesia described how the weather went bad while they were diving and that the sea spun “like a washing machine.” Saori Furukawa was among the five divers rescued last Monday.
She recounted how the weather was “serene” when the group took off from Nusa Lembongan towards the diving site. “At the start of our diving there were no problems in terms of weather and sea conditions,” she described. In fact, there were “almost no waves,” and it came as a surprise when suddenly they were caught in the middle of a storm. Furukawa detailed the ordeal, saying, ‘The surface of the sea started to spin like a washing machine and all of us spun around together, hand in hand.” It was only because the five of them held onto rocks and coral reefs that they survived. Rescuers saw them drifting and Furukawa said that it was around three days already that they were clambering onto the rocks to survive.
The other divers were found in a different area, around 20 kilometers where they set off. But Furukawa, who tried to swim after a tugboat to be saved, were found in a different location than the other four. “The current was running in the opposite direction from the current where the rest of the members stayed, so I was swept further away from them,” she recounted. Rescuers have already found the body of one member of the group, but the search for the diving instructor, Shoko Takahashi, who owns the Yellow Scuba diving company in Indonesia, is still ongoing. Takahashi’s husband, Putu Mahardena Sembah, already joined the search operations determined to find his wife, but police are starting to lose hope they’ll find her alive. Other rescue officials have expanded the area of the search to include the nearby island of Lombok. The rescued divers are now recuperating in a hospital in Bali, but no one was reported seriously injured.
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