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DIVERS

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2019
Japanese record-breaking free diver Sayuri Kinoshita, 30, dies after fall from apartment
Record-breaking Japanese free diver Sayuri Kinoshita died Monday following a fall from her apartment in Okinawa Prefecture last week, according to police and her family.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 31, 2014
Divers set to search for AirAsia wreckage; plane believed intact until sea impact; stall suspected
Divers and ships will search for the wreckage and the all important black boxes of a doomed AirAsia plane on Wednesday after Indonesian rescuers found several bodies and debris floating in shallow waters off the coast of Borneo.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2014
Bali police declare dive boat captain suspect in fatal accident
Police on Bali, Indonesia, name the captain of a dive boat as a suspect in a fatal scuba diving accident that left at least one Japanese woman dead.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2014
Rescued scuba diver recounts ordeal
One of the Japanese women rescued after disappearing while scuba diving off the Indonesian island of Bali recounts her harrowing ordeal of being swallowed up by strong currents and surviving on coconuts.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2014
Body of missing scuba diver found off Bali
Rescuers searching for two remaining Japanese women who disappeared while scuba diving off the Indonesian resort island of Bali find the body of a female scuba diver.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2014
Seven Japanese scuba divers missing off Bali
Seven Japanese women are missing after going scuba diving off the Indonesian resort island of Bali and a two-day search effort has failed to locate them.

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