Emergency teams found the body of the missing diver on Saturday on the Mar Bella beach in Barcelona, ??in the Fòrum area. According to sources from the emergency teams consulted by La Vanguardia, the submariner has been found on the Illa de Verdura breakwater, near Levante beach.
For his part. The Government delegate in Catalonia, Carlos Prieto, regretted this Tuesday the discovery of the lifeless body. “Unfortunately, the lifeless body of the missing submariner has been found after an intense search for days in difficult conditions.”
Since Saturday, several rescue teams have been searching for the man who had last been seen between the Fòrum and the Bac de Roda breakwater, next to the Mar Bella beach. The man was doing some scuba diving without oxygen in the sea.
The Group of Specialists in Underwater Activities (Geas) of the Civil Guard has directed the operation from the moment the man disappeared, and the underwater, maritime and drone unit of the Mossos d’Esquadra, and the Bombers have also participated. of the Generalitat.
The emergency services were alerted around two o’clock on Saturday that a man had seen from land how another man, who was wearing a wetsuit, was tied to a buoy in front of the Mar Bella beach, and that he subsequently had disappeared into the sea. Immediately, they began searching for the diver and have been searching the area where he was last seen with dives by divers, aerial means and surface vessels.
The search work this weekend was made difficult by the “terrible conditions” of the sea, with strong waves, strong currents and poor visibility on the seabed due to the debris thrown up by the Besòs and Llobregat rivers, intensified by the intense rains. that fell in Barcelona.
According to the rescue personnel, they are working with the hypothesis that the man could have disappeared due to drowning or suffering an accident as a result of the terrible sea conditions.